WHITEHOUSE TRIANGLE[Source:Tony Graham & Paul Wright]
triangle5.jpg) Transporting Saturday shoppers home from a day out at Preston Market in July 1963, Stanier 2-6-4T No. 42494 heads the 5.30 pm Preston - Southport over the pointwork at Whitehouse West Junction and underneath the 6 tracks of the West Coast main line. The triangle here proved to be extremely useful for turning locomotives of trains arriving at Preston, particularly when the more circuitous route between Todd Lane Junction and Farington Curve Junction via Lostock Hall was congested with other seasonal traffic. This loco was built in may 1937 at Derby and here has less than 2 years' service left as it was withdrawn on 8.5.1965 from Fleetwood shed and cut up at Cashmores of Great Bridge that October.
Photo by Alan Castle
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