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10th September 1977
With St Helens on the destination blind, a refurbished Class 108 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M51914 was leading an eight-car rake of 108's (4 x 2-car sets), passing Kirkham North Junction with an ECS working from Blackpool North on September 10th 1977. The units were running along the now-removed Up station avoiding line. Martyn Hilbert.
2nd August 1980
The view through bridge 26 looking towards Kirkham North Junction as a 6-Car Class 104 formation takes the station avoiding line with a Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service on Saturday August 2nd 1980. The leading car is M50474 one of the large fleet of 104's then allocated to Newton Heath Depot. This was before the construction of the Kirkham by-pass which now crosses the line adjacent to the signalbox. The Coast Line to Blackpool South can be seen diverging away on the left, whilst behind the outer home signal on the Blackpool bound line is one of the brick piers that once carried the flyover that took trains from the Marton Direct Line (From Blackpool Central) over the Blackpool North route, the ramp onto the up direction station avoiding line being at the West side of the signalbox. Martyn Hilbert.
2nd August 1980
A view along the District Civil Engineers sidings at Kirkham North Junction through the cast-iron span of bridge 26, as a 2-Car Class 104 DMU formed of cars M50449 & M50535 comes off the Ribby Curve and the end of the Coast Line with the 12.01 Blackpool South to Kirkham & Wesham on August 2nd 1980. These were the days when the core daytime service on the Blackpool South line ran to and from Kirkham only, utilising a reversing siding at the Preston end of Kirkham station. On weekday mornings a through service ran to Manchester Victoria and a corresponding return service ran in the evening, the unit stabling overnight at Blackpool South, the route then was still double track and South station had two platform roads. In the 1970's the through Manchester train was often formed of a Class 124 Transpennine DMU set. Martyn Hilbert.
1st August 1981
A two-car Class 104 DMU formed of DMBS M50534 & DMS (ex-composite downgraded) M50507 was coming off the Coast Line at Kirkham North Junction whilst forming the 12.01 Blackpool South to Kirkham & Wesham on August 1st 1981. Martyn Hilbert.
1st August 1981
The view from the former goods yard access road, through bridge 26, looking West towards Kirkham North Junction on August 1st 1981. A pair of Newton Heath allocated Class 104 three-car DMU sets with Driving Motor Brake Second M50469 at the rear, were accelerating away from their station stop at Kirkham & Wesham whilst working a Manchester Victoria to Blackpool North service on a warm Summer Saturday. Martyn Hilbert.
7th July 1984
In a location that has been totally changed with remodelling and subsequent electrification, a Class 108 two-car DMU formed of Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M53964 & Driving Trailer Second Lavatory (DTSL) M54247, was coming off the Coast Line at Kirkham North Junction with a Blackpool South to Kirkham & Wesham shuttle service on July 7th 1984. Visible in the heat haze above the field is the 518ft Blackpool Tower. Just above the leading car of the DMU, the track that is winding-away is the former Down Marton line, once used by services to access the long closed seafront terminus at Blackpool Central. By 1984, twenty years after closure, a short stub was left in-situ to serve the District Civil Engineers waste tip at Westby. Martyn Hilbert.
7th July 1984
In the days before the Kirkham By-Pass crossed the line, a Class 111/110 six-car DMU formation was passing over Kirkham North Junction with a Saturday Blackpool North to Leeds service on July 7th 1984. The lead set is a Metro-Cammell Class 111 formed of cars 78706 and 78956, whilst behind is a BRCW Calder Valley Class 110 that had been strengthened to four-cars with the insertion of an additional centre trailer coach. Martyn Hilbert.
3rd September 1988
A three-car Class 101/110 Hybrid DMU formed of Class 101 Driving Cars M51808 & M51799 with a former Calder Valley Class 110 Centre Trailer Car, M59694, had just passed through Kirkham North Junction with a Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service on September 3rd 1988. This was the period when due to ongoing problems with the Class 142 fleet, various combinations of surviving First Generation DMU's were cobbled together to keep services running. Martyn Hilbert.
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