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LYRS 8640 - 1967. The Booking Hall seen here is no longer in use but there is still a staffed Ticket Office accessed from the Manchester Platform.

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LYRS 6029 - Looking north east from the 'up' platform across to the 'down' platform before the buildings on the 'down' platform and all canopies had been demolished.

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LYRS 8680 - The disused and now demolished warehouse looking down Station Approach towards the viaduct.

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Steam train reversing to platform hence steam seeming to blow the wrong way

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Bicycle Storage Facility and Car Park

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Preston Bay, Town Hall at rear

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Ex Goods yard, now car park

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Removal of canopies 1972

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Removal of canopies 1972

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Viewed from Dobroyd Road in 1866, a year after the station was enlarged. The warehouses in the foreground are served by a branch line developed and used by Fielden Bros. Ltd for cotton goods. This shows the goods yard before it was extended in 1881…

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LYRS 8649 - General view of the station in the late 1960s looking across to the Manchester platform with the station master’s house behind the fence. The building on the eastbound platform has now gone as well as all canopy .

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LYRS 3825 - c.1890. On the carriage drive to Dobroyd Castle. "The level crossing at Dobroyd was controlled from this quaint, doll's house-style structure, first erected in 1872, and replaced in 1901. The job of crossing keeper was an occupational…
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