Talk:Heysham Port railway station

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EMU?[edit]

How did Heysham Port have EMU service without electricity? —Sladen (talk) 22:24, 1 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The OHLE masts & catenary were removed (presumably for scrap) after withdrawal of the local passenger service in January 1966 (although diesel-worked boat trains continued for some years after that). The Midland Railway branch from Lancaster Castle to Morecambe (via Lancaster Green Ayre) was also electrified (at 6.6Kv AC OHLE, as noted in the Morecambe Branch Line and Lancaster railway station articles) in addition to the Heysham branch - it was one of the first such installations in the UK when commissioned in 1908. Few traces of the equipment now remain, although there are one or two rusty pieces of supporting ironwork adorning certain over-bridges above the cycleway that now occupies most of the old railway trackbed between Green Ayre & Morecambe (which closed to passengers in January 1966 and completely the following June apart from a short section retained as a siding until 1970). There are numerous photographs of the line when open (and the unusual EMUs used on the service) available online and in books such as the ones referenced in the Morecambe Branch line article (e.g the Binns & Bairstow ones on the 'Little' North Western Railway). Gmac67 (talk) 00:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. And incredibly intriguing. Thank you for being so speedy to answer (and to give such a full one). —Sladen (talk) 00:25, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]