Accrington Railways - Robert Kenyon

the seal of the Council affixing to it. He suggested there should be a clause added to protect the footpaths owned by the Council and the interests of the tramway. The mayor moved that the seal of the Council should be attached after the suggested clause had been inserted, and this was seconded by Alderman Entwistle. April A party of 287 employees and families of the local Amalgamated Society of Railway Workers sat down to a tea in the Assembly Room of Accrington Town Hall in a charity event in aid of the Railway Widows’ & Orphans’ Fund. The event was presided over by Mr J. Kerr JP of the Dunkenhalgh, who in his address on the history of railways, made reference to the current Channel Tunnel Scheme, whom the military authorities were in opposition to. There followed a concert given by entertainers from the area. A locomotive running light engine crashed through a buffer-stop close to Lonsdale Street Bridge and finished up nose down in the road. October Robert Wilson, a 45 year old of Brown Street, Accrington, an engine tenter at the Woodnook Mill of Bury Brothers, was struck and killed by a train whilst walking to Huncoat from Hapton along the railway tracks. He was hit by an express train approaching Huncoat Railway Station at speed and then thrown onto the down track, where another train going east ran over him dismembering his body. At the Coroner’s Court a verdict of accidental death was recorded. It was thought he was using the railway as a means of a shortcut. It was during 1886 that Barton Wright left the L & Y and was succeeded by a 35-year-old John Aspinall as Chief Mechanical Engineer. 1887 With the opening of Horwich Locomotive Works all engine building ceased at the Miles Platting Works with the works at Bury closing shortly afterwards. These factories had supplied many of the engines which worked and were allocated to Accrington over the years. Note It should be pointed out that whereas some text is based on the Accrington Observer & Times, it was the town’s ‘other’ paper the Gazette, which best supported the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway by publishing the monthly timetables of all the train services passing through Accrington on a month by month basis for several years, including the following - Lancashire & Yorkshire Timetables for July 1887. Trains from Accrington to Manchester Victoria via Bury. Mondays to Fridays and Saturdays 07:3 3 08:07 09:22 09:45 10:12 10:57 11:43 13:38 14:37 15:3 2 16:25 16:45 17:45 18:43 19:50 20:34 21:17 22:50 Sundays 08:1 0 10:45 16:05 19:30 20:05 22:00 Trains from Accrington to Blackpool, Fleetwood, Liverpool & Southport via Preston On Mondays to Fridays and Saturdays 06:10 07:40 08:40 09:35 10:05 11:33 13:15 14:17 14:55 15:25 16:20 17:03 17:15 18:12 19:10 19:55 19:50 20:45 21:30 22:40 Through trains – at 10:05 & 11:33 to Fleetwood, at 13:15 to Blackpool Talbot Road, at 16:20 to Blackpool Central, at 17:03 to Southport, 21:30 to Preston and at 22:40 to Blackburn only. Sundays 08:2 3 10:40 13:27 16:12 19:20 20:45 21:50 Through trains – at 10:40, 13:27 & 19:20 to Blackpool Central, at 20:45 to Preston and at 21:50 to Blackburn only. Trains from Accrington to Blackburn on Mondays to Fridays. 06:10 07:40 08:40 09:25 09:35 10:05 10:55 11:55 13:55 14:17 14:55 15:25 16:20 16:25 17:03 17:15 18:12 19:10 19:55 20:45 21:30 22:40 Saturdays only

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