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Description: History of Horwich Railway Station, Horwich, Lancashire. Opened in 1970, closed in 1965 following the Beeching Report. History includes the branch lines and the locomotive works of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. History of the site following closure including Old Station Park and Horwich Parkway Railway Station.
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Horwich is most famous for the Locomotive works built by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, but it once also boasted its own terminus railway station. On 27th September 1965, however, Horwich Station fell prey to the Beeching Axe and it closed to passenger traffic (the last train left on Saturday 25th September 1965 ).
10617 , (built 1911 at Horwich) the 'Blackrod Jerk' railmotor waiting at the platform on 22nd April 1947. The railmotor, which consisted of a single carriage connected directly to a locomotive, could be driven from both ends and was used for the short journey to Blackrod Junction . Science and Society picture library have a 1925 picture of the loco without the carriage.
photo H.C.Casserley
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