Lancashire Railways 1964-1968 (Liverpool - Southport - Ormskirk - Burscough - Wigan) 

Lovely set of clips of my home area brings back memories for an Ormskirk lad and the trips to Preston, Liverpool and Southport by steam train. Between 1962 and 1964 the 7pm was a spotters must as it was often a duchess or a princess with just 4 coaches from a split train in Preston.

Hi my name is Phil I did 50yrs on the footplate 8yrs on steam i started at edgeley shed on the 4th of April 1961 in 1962 I was made a fireman at Trafford Park shed I finished my time out at longsight as a driver in 2011 Regards Phil.

Thanks Micheal,remember them well ,that when Longton had a bridge crossing the A59 near my house. Wonderful times❤

Great old films v well narrated. Thanks for posting

Absolutely amazing video.superb collection of lines lost,stations gone,steam locomotives. BRILLIANT THANKS FOR SHARING

Superb footage of our magnificent steam era, never to be forgotten!

Despite not being born in this era (somehow!) my mind is blown that I've finally found footage of a steam locomotive at my local station of Orrell! Thank you so much for this hidden gem!

Super film and memories of steam, especially how relatively recently it ceased. Thanks for the upload.

My grandfather (seldom met) was a driver based at Meols Cop (Crossens?) . I think he retired about 1955 maybe earlier,so he was around during war years.I met once or twice and he was typical driver, pipe in hand and as I recall and dressed in black waistcoat.I now appreciate how skilled the drivers were.The airline pilots of their day.

This is the best local footage I've ever seen. Excellent upload.

As a lad growing up in Ormskirk I used to traverse many of those fields alongside the Preston line with my mates. There used to be an abandoned farmhouse we would go and explore. Seems like a lifetime ago in 2021. Come to think of it… it is!

Really nice to see Orrell and Up Holland stations. Also look at the members of the public all over the line during the closing sequence. Imagine that today!!

This brings me back to my days when I saw the end steam and the end of stations and some lines. Very enjoyable.

Like seeing those steamers in action, very interesting they were in use right up to 1968, even on passenger service.

Magical footage of my old stomping ground. Brilliant.

Brilliant footage. Brings back good memories. Thanks for posting.

The video is taken from B&R video Productions Lancashire & Yorkshire memories Part 5. The Narrator is Colin White and videos are from various sources including Colin. It's definitely worth getting hold of copy of the full video.

Brilliant! Thanks for uploading.

The Fairburn tank is leaving Riverside station and crossing the bridge separating Princes Dock, in the background, from Princes Half-tide Dock.

What a shame the author of this wonderful footage is unknown. Very evocative.

Many many thanks for uploading this gem!

Brings back the time I was at school and out with my note book & pencil getting the locomotives numbers great days

Thank you for posting this great historical footage. I have really enjoyed watching. The commentary is informative but never intrusive. The slipping of the 5 at roughly 9 1/2 minutes was particularly severe; it sounded like a machine gun! Yet as soon as he controlled it the driver gave it full reg again.

We love on the ainscough Mill Estate, and to see the steam trains flying past where our house is, and what the station looked like was amazing thank you

Lovely films, very evocative

Brilliant video !

Superb.

nostalgic memories of my trainspotting days in the1960s at Wigan Wallgate and North Western. What video was this taken from? and is it still available as I would love to get hold of a copy

Great video

meny thanks shame that its all gone

There is a slight error at 17.23, the Liverpool to Glasgow train isn't heading towards Kirkdale it's already past it, those are the tunnels between Hawthorne Road, Brewster Street, Hale Road and Breeze hill just past Kirkdale Station, I'd guess it was filmed from the end of the platform or just past the Hawthorne road bridge. As a child we used to catch the Liverpool to Glasgow train regularly to visit relatives in Kelvinside in Glasgow. I remember my mum used to complain about having to travel into Liverpool Exchange Station from Kirkdale to catch the train as it didn't stop at Kirkdale. These days I travel from Liverpool Central (northern line) with changes at Ormskirk and Preston, the travel time is pretty much the same as when it was a direct service by steam it's also about an hour quicker than going from the main line station Liverpool Lime Street.

Imagine how useful either reinstating the Burscough curves would be or closing both Burscough stations and building a new station called Burscough interchange where both lines cross. I’m far too imaginative! EDIT: Mind you, you could walk it in 5 minutes, to do it by train now would take hours, it’s ridiculous.

Cool

Hi there do you know who the narrator was in the sanctioned film?

A lot of the enthusiasts would be called trespassers nowadays sadly

Some nice footage there. Being picky, the pronunciation of Burscough is wrong. It's not 'Burscoff' or 'Burscow' but 'Burscuh'. The state of some of the locos gives a good indication of the excessive loads they were being asked to haul and the dreadful maintenance current in BR at the time......organised sabotage!

Never realized the BR Blue period and Steam ever had any cross over, let alone seeing a steam engine pull BR Blue couches

9:35... 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 BLOODY HELL 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲

The closure of Southport to Crossens was rail sabotage

the hull old railway line to honsea

11:35... 😂He's got a bit of a SPEED WOBBLE on there😂

It always surprises me how much wheelslip there is in these films of working steam locomotives. I can see how you'd slip the wheels when starting a heavy train, for example, but look at 0:13 -- light engine, moving slowly, no need to accelerate hard. Why slip the wheels there? Is that bad driving or am I just underestimating the difficulty and being overly critical?

Now even the 508s are gone too

Boy

Should never have closed the curves.

10:10... Lucky they made Exchange.!😲!. Eh.!😂!. Nearly all over the tracks.!🤬!. AND... This was the SECOND TIME it'd happened.!🙄! You'd have thought that he'd have learned from the earlier, shorter 'outburst'.!😂! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Those days when we could fabricate anything ourselves and didn’t need to rely on China to make things for us