Wyre Dock railway station

Wyre Dock / Fleetwood
Location
Place	Wyre Dock, Fleetwood
Area	Wyre
Coordinates	53°55′09″N 3°00′51″W / 53.9192°N 3.0142°W / 53.9192; -3.0142Coordinates: 53°55′09″N 3°00′51″W / 53.9192°N 3.0142°W / 53.9192; -3.0142
Operations
Original company	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway / London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping	LYR / LNWR
Platforms	2
History
1885	Opened
18 April 1966	Renamed "Fleetwood"
1 June 1970	Closed
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Wyre Dock railway station served Fleetwood in Lancashire, England from 1885 to 1970.

The goods branch into the docks was shunted by small locomotives, latterly by the LMS Fowler Dock Tanks. 47165 is in steam at Fleetwood in 1958

Wyre Dock passenger station was constructed in 1885,^[1] on the Fleetwood Branch Line from Poulton-le-Fylde, about half a mile from the Fleetwood main terminus. The station stood at the southern end of Dock Street, about a quarter mile from Wyre Dock itself. There had been a branch line for freight only to Wyre Dock since its construction in 1877, to support the distribution of fish. Fleetwood locomotive depot was located on the east side of the line south of the station. It was closed by British Railways in 1965.

Fleetwood's main terminus was closed on 18 April 1966, as a result of the Beeching Cuts, and Wyre Dock was renamed "Fleetwood" station, as the terminus of the Fleetwood Branch Line.^[2] However, all passenger services between Poulton-le-Fylde and Fleetwood were withdrawn after the last train on 30 May 1970,^[3] and the station was demolished. Light industry developed in the area, and, in the 1990s, the new A585 Amounderness Way bypass was built on the former railway bed.

Notes

↑ Suggitt, p.37
↑ Welch, p.28
↑ Suggitt, p.41

References

Suggitt, G. (2003, revised 2004) Lost Railways of Lancashire, Countryside Books, Newbury, ISBN 1-85306-801-2
Welch, M.S. (2004) Lancashire Steam Finale, Runpast Publishing, Cheltenham, ISBN 1-870754-61-1

External links

Maps showing
Wyre Dock Station

NPE Maps (1947)

Vision of Britain

OS 1:2500 Map on MARIO (1892)

Other maps

53°55′09″N 3°00′51″W / 53.9192°N 3.0142°W / 53.9192; -3.0142

Poulton and Wyre Railway Society, working towards restoring passenger services to Fleetwood.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Fleetwood until 1966		LNWR / LYR Fleetwood Branch Line		Burn Naze Halt
Terminus after 1966		London Midland Region Fleetwood Branch Line		Burn Naze Halt

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Transport

Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad Blackpool tramway Fleetwood Branch Line Garstang & Knot-End Railway North Lancs Steam Navigation Preston & Wyre Railway

Railway stations	Poulton-le-Fylde

Disused stations	Burn Naze Halt Carr Lane Cockerham Cross Halt Fleetwood Garstang and Catterall Garstang Town Knott End-on-Sea Nateby Pilling Poulton Curve Halt Preesall Thornton–Cleveleys Wyre Dock

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Media

Fleetwood Weekly News

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Constituencies	Fylde North Lancaster and Fleetwood Lancaster and Wyre Wyre and Preston North

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