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A Cravens DMU at Kirkham, date unknown. John Law.
4th September 1976
A Class 108 power twin with M52054 closest seen at Kirkham on 4 September 1976. John Horne Collection.
Unknown Date
A Class 105 power-twin seen at Kirkham with Blackpool on the destination blind, date unknown. A Class 104 can be seen in the distance. Stuart Mackay Collection.
10th September 1977
With St Helens on the destination blind, a refurbished Class 108 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M51914 was leading an eight-car rake of 108's (4 x 2-car sets), passing Kirkham North Junction with an ECS working from Blackpool North on September 10th 1977. The units were running along the now-removed Up station avoiding line. Martyn Hilbert.
5th September 1978
Rainy day at Kirkham & Wesham on Tuesday 05 September 1978. The Cravens Class 105 DMU, with M56129 closest, was working the Blackpool South - Kirkham shuttle service. Ian 10B.
28th June 1980
Having arrived at Kirkham & Wesham with the 18.01 from Blackpool South, an ex Eastern Region Class 105 Power/Trailer two-car set formed of Driving Motor Brake Second M50385 & Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory M56118, was stood in the Upside platform awaiting the return with the 18.58 to Blackpool South on June 28th 1980. These were the days when the majority of services on the Coast Line were formed of units shuttling back and forth between Kirkham and Blackpool South. Although the station at Kirkham had lost its iron & glass platform canopy, the former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway buildings in the companies favourite yellow brick style, were still in use. Martyn Hilbert.
2nd August 1980
The view through bridge 26 looking towards Kirkham North Junction as a 6-Car Class 104 formation takes the station avoiding line with a Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service on Saturday August 2nd 1980. The leading car is M50474 one of the large fleet of 104's then allocated to Newton Heath Depot. This was before the construction of the Kirkham by-pass which now crosses the line adjacent to the signalbox. The Coast Line to Blackpool South can be seen diverging away on the left, whilst behind the outer home signal on the Blackpool bound line is one of the brick piers that once carried the flyover that took trains from the Marton Direct Line (From Blackpool Central) over the Blackpool North route, the ramp onto the up direction station avoiding line being at the West side of the signalbox. Martyn Hilbert.
2nd August 1980
A view along the District Civil Engineers sidings at Kirkham North Junction through the cast-iron span of bridge 26, as a 2-Car Class 104 DMU formed of cars M50449 & M50535 comes off the Ribby Curve and the end of the Coast Line with the 12.01 Blackpool South to Kirkham & Wesham on August 2nd 1980. These were the days when the core daytime service on the Blackpool South line ran to and from Kirkham only, utilising a reversing siding at the Preston end of Kirkham station. On weekday mornings a through service ran to Manchester Victoria and a corresponding return service ran in the evening, the unit stabling overnight at Blackpool South, the route then was still double track and South station had two platform roads. In the 1970's the through Manchester train was often formed of a Class 124 Transpennine DMU set. Martyn Hilbert.
25th November 1980
A wet and windy Kirkham station finds a 'Blackpool white stripe' BRCW class 104 DMU running into the station with a service for Blackpool North. 25th November 1980. Paul James.
1st April 1981
Set: BN455
Complete with its Buxton depot trademark of a white cab roof, BRCW Class 104 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50420 was leading a six-car Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service along the station avoiding line at Kirkham & Wesham on August 1st 1981. In the cab window is Buxton set number BN455. Martyn Hilbert.
1st August 1981
A two-car Class 104 DMU formed of DMBS M50534 & DMS (ex-composite downgraded) M50507 was coming off the Coast Line at Kirkham North Junction whilst forming the 12.01 Blackpool South to Kirkham & Wesham on August 1st 1981. Martyn Hilbert.
1st August 1981
The view from the former goods yard access road, through bridge 26, looking West towards Kirkham North Junction on August 1st 1981. A pair of Newton Heath allocated Class 104 three-car DMU sets with Driving Motor Brake Second M50469 at the rear, were accelerating away from their station stop at Kirkham & Wesham whilst working a Manchester Victoria to Blackpool North service on a warm Summer Saturday. Martyn Hilbert.
5th May 1984
A two-car Class 108 DMU with Driving Trailer 54250 leading (and presumably with DMBS 53967), was accelerating away from Kirkham North Junction on the last lap of its 12 mile journey along the Coast Line with the 10.30 Blackpool South to Kirkham service on May 5th 1984. These were the days when the Coast Line via Lytham was still double track and other than a through working to Manchester Victoria on a Weekday morning and a corresponding return service in an evening, the core service ran between Blackpool South & Kirkham only, with the units utilising the reversing siding located beyond the East end of the platform at Kirkham station. Martyn Hilbert.
6th June 1984
Despite the tail lights being switched on, and the destination blind showing 'Blackpool', the two-car Class 108 formed of cars M56263 & M50973 was arriving at Kirkham & Wesham with the service from Blackpool South on June 6th 1984. These were the days when the Coast Line from Kirkham was operated by a shuttle service that started/terminated at Kirkham. Martyn Hilbert.
30th June 1984
With the former Parkinsons biscuit factory dominating the skyline, A Class 120 hybrid set coupled to a Class 104 approaches Kirkham North Junction with DMSL M53694 leading a Manchester Victoria to Blackpool North service on June 30th 1984. The centre car is a Class 101 Metro-Cammell Trailer Second Lavatory. Empty Grampus dropside wagons are lined-up in the siding. Martyn Hilbert.
7th July 1984
In a location that has been totally changed with remodelling and subsequent electrification, a Class 108 two-car DMU formed of Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M53964 & Driving Trailer Second Lavatory (DTSL) M54247, was coming off the Coast Line at Kirkham North Junction with a Blackpool South to Kirkham & Wesham shuttle service on July 7th 1984. Visible in the heat haze above the field is the 518ft Blackpool Tower. Just above the leading car of the DMU, the track that is winding-away is the former Down Marton line, once used by services to access the long closed seafront terminus at Blackpool Central. By 1984, twenty years after closure, a short stub was left in-situ to serve the District Civil Engineers waste tip at Westby. Martyn Hilbert.
7th July 1984
In the days before the Kirkham By-Pass crossed the line, a Class 111/110 six-car DMU formation was passing over Kirkham North Junction with a Saturday Blackpool North to Leeds service on July 7th 1984. The lead set is a Metro-Cammell Class 111 formed of cars 78706 and 78956, whilst behind is a BRCW Calder Valley Class 110 that had been strengthened to four-cars with the insertion of an additional centre trailer coach. Martyn Hilbert.
2nd August 1985
Set: EP503
A hybrid Swindon Cross-Country 3-Car DMU set (Formerly Derby Etches Park Depot set EP503) with W51573 leading, departs from Kirkham with Manchester Victoria to Blackpool South tea-time through service on August 2nd 1985. Sandwiched between the two Class 120 driving cars was a Metro-Cammell Class 101 trailer car. This viewpoint including the semaphore signal has now gone, a six-foot palisade fence now segregates the running lines from the cobbled road to the former goods yard. Martyn Hilbert.
27th July 1986
An impressive 10-car DMU rake led by MetroTrain branded 53610 and 54199, followed by a plain blue class 105 pair and three more two-car class 108 sets heads for York at Kirkham Abbey on 27/Jul/1986. Robert Chilton.
August 1986
A Class 110/108/101/101 formation seen at Kirkham Abbey in August 1986. George Woods.
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