Lytham (Station Road) railway station

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Lytham

Location

Location

Station Road, Lytham

Area

Fylde

Coordinates

53°44′18″N 2°57′24″W / 53.7384, -2.9566Coordinates: 53°44′18″N 2°57′24″W / 53.7384, -2.9566

Operations

Original company

Preston and Wyre Joint Railway

Pre-grouping

Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway / London and North Western Railway

Platforms

History

16 February 1846

Opened

1 July 1874

Closed to passengers

Unknown date

Closed to goods

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The original Lytham railway station was the Lytham terminus of a branch of the Preston and Wyre Joint Railway from Kirkham in Lancashire, England. It opened, along with the branch, on 16 February 1846; the road it was located in became known as Station Road. It was built in a Renaissance style from Longridge stone. A branch was also built to the dock at Lytham Pool.

In 1863, the Blackpool and Lytham Railway opened a separate line to its own station in Ballam Road, Lytham.

By 1874, both lines were owned jointly by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the London and North Western Railway. Ballam Road station was rebuilt as a through station and a connecting line was built to join the other line east of Lytham. The original station in Station Road was then closed to passengers, but continued to be used as a goods station for many decades, and was still in use in the 1960s.

A fire station now occupies the site.

[edit] References

Maps showing
Lytham (old) Station

Old OS Maps (estimated 1925 to 1945)

NPE Maps (1947)

Vision of Britain

OS 1:2500 Map on MARIO (about 1892)

OS 1:10000 Map on MARIO (about 1848)

Other maps

SD 3700 2732

Welch, M.S. (2004) Lancashire Steam Finale, Runpast Publishing, Cheltenham, ISBN 1 870754 61 1, p.29
Hughes, R.V. (1931), “Early Coast travel”, LMS Magazine, Feb. 1931, accessed online 18 October 2007