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PRESTON STATION REMODELLING

Preston Station Remodelling
BY MIKE NORRIS

Mike would like to hear from anyone involved with the remodelling and resignalling of the station and surrounding area to aid historical research for future documentation, please contact via the Feedback page.

SECTION CONTENTS
1.
Background
2. Project Approval & Planning
3. The Work at Preston
4. Signalling & Power Box Commissioning
5. Electrification, Catenary & Electricity Supply
6. Delays
7. Locomotives
8. Media
9. It's Official!
8. Media
And as mentioned previously the PR machine had been in overdrive to ensure the best opportunities were being made of the imminent service upgrade, it was also involved in other more safety conscious exercises.

This not only extended to staff as there was a campaign to visit 120 schools in the Preston area by locomotive drivers were approx 10,000 children attended the lectures. Also some 7,000 leaflets and posters were distributed, to business premises adjacent to electrified routes. Finally senior police, fire and ambulance officers had also been instructed on safety procedures.

[LEFT] The media played an important role during the project from the very first announcement. Documents like this one were reproduced in several guises for example 'Building a New Railway Crewe to Glasgow', with much the same information. They also provided much of the input used by the railway magazines of the time, many quoting verbatim. 

[FAR LEFT] Safety was also given the treatment with a number of campaigns many of which had supporting posters or handouts such as this.

 

 

 

STATION

The North End of the station
The old platform 1 & 2 (now closed to passengers)
The current platform 1 & 2
Platform 3
Platform 4A (and 3A) - south-facing bays
Platforms 4 and 5
Platfotrms 6 and 7
Old Platform 10 to 13

Th south end of the station

MODERN PHOTOS

What you can expect to see at Preston Station on an average day.
Photos of recent interesting / unusual visitors to the station.

Contemporary photos taken at Preston

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