Preston Station Gallery

Archive photos (up to 1999)


Last additions - Steven Brindley
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81001 awaiting uncoupling from the newspaper / parcel vans to Manchester Red Bank, the train will finish its journey behind a diesel locomotive. 387 viewsMay 01, 2015
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40148 photographed in August 1980 not long after release from BREL Crewe after a general overhaul. However the loco was withdrawn on the 4th August 1982 !! 377 viewsMay 01, 2015
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Class 304 EMU, 304 024, awaits departure from platform 2 with the return relief Saturday only working to Crewe. Note the unit is still in solid BR blue livery, has an operational but unused head code box & is still a 4 car set. 684 viewsMay 01, 2015
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40096 waits at the signal with a northbound freight. 81001 sits in the parcels platform. 371 viewsMay 01, 2015
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87030 "Black Douglas" slows to a stop at platform 4 with a southbound service.598 viewsApr 30, 2015
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85037 & 85016 work in tandem with a northbound freight, also note the class 47 leaving the Preston dock branch with empty bitumen tanks. 501 viewsApr 30, 2015
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25158 awaits a light engine movement at the south of the station.391 viewsApr 30, 2015
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40013 "Andania" sits in the south bay platform at Preston. This locomotive has been preserved & as of 2015 can be seen at Barrow Hill repainted in green livery complete with nameplates. 396 viewsApr 30, 2015
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Former Haymarket class 40, 40062, with its unique steel plate fitted in the head code panel at the south end of the station. 390 viewsApr 30, 2015
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87024 "Lord of the Isles" & 87010 "King Arthur" use their combined 10,000hp to move a northbound freightliner through Preston. 564 viewsApr 30, 2015
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24, number 5021, at Preston in blue livery but still wearing the old style BR logo, probably in 1974 or 75.638 viewsApr 29, 2015
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40080 has a crew change on platform 3 while hauling a northbound engineers freight. Note the APT coach marking painted on the platform. .417 viewsApr 29, 2015
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