Station Name: PENWORTHAM (COP LANE) [Source:Tony Graham &
Paul Wright]
old18.jpg) One can almost hear the bees buzzing and the birds singing in the grass-lined cutting at Penwortham (Cop Lane) on this balmy summer morning. Lostock Hall's unkempt Fairburn 2-6-4T No. 42286 clears its cylinders, disturbing the solitude, and slowly accelerates away up the gradient the 10.12 am Preston - Southport service, laden with day-trippers to the seaside in 1964. Built for the LMS in 1947, this 4P, tank came out of Derby works on 24 September. After a spell at 26A Newton Heath, it was allocated to Bank Hall and Bury before being transferred to 24C Lostock Hall from where it was withdrawn on 26.12.1964 and cut up by Wards in August 1965. Photo by Alan Castle  Home
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