This is our fourth volume in a series of programmes covering the railways of Lancashire and Yorkshire. It contains film of steam locomotives on the ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire lines between Burnley, Blackburn and Bolton and shed visits to Rose .Grave and Bolton. Also, freight workings behind Standard and Staniar locomotives with special passenger trains between the years 1965 and 1968. This was the route for coal trains between Yorkshire and Lancashire serving the mill towns of the Pennines.
Much of the railway seen in this video has changed for ever; a motorway now runs through the site where once Rose Grove shed stood, one of the last three sheds to close to steam power in 1968. The route between Blackburn and Bolton vla Entwhistle has now been singled where once trains blasted their way up to and through Sough tunnel.
The Harwich push-pull trains are now but a memory along with the works WIC There is a full and detailed look at the Chequerbent Incline, on the famous Bolton & Leigh railway, the first railway in Lancashire. View the line in its last days from the lineside, guards van and footplate.
Thirteen cameramen supplied the film for this video, all were competent at this art and have brought together a programme which is a tribute to the last days of steam traction in Lancashire.
