[Source:Tony Graham &
Paul Wright]
old13.jpg) The 'last-day' 4.52 pm Preston - Southport approaches Crossens station on Sunday 6 September 1964, with a commendably clean Fairburn 4MT 2-6-4 tank at the head. No. 42296 has been specially prepared at Lostock Hall shed, for, as part of the diagram, its return working is to be at the head of the final northbound train of all over the doomed West Lancs line. At the same instant that No. 42296 pulls in, another Lostock Hall engine, Standard 2MT 2-6-0 No. 78041, is just starting away from the platform-end in the opposite direction with the 17-10 Southport - Preston. 42296 was built at Derby for the LMS in November 1947 and withdrawn for scrapping from Lostock Hall shed in July 1965. 78041 entered service on 18.12.1954 sfter being built at Darlington works and was withdrawn from Lostock Hall shed in May 1967 to be cut up later that year by Motherwell Machinery and Scrap. Notice the 1500V DC third-rail, which continues for a few yards beyond the terminus of this commuter-belt extension to the Liverpool - Southport electric line. The electric service, that operated via Meols Cop, has actually already seen its last train the previous evening, there being no Sunday workings.
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