page_title: Fleetwood branch line
section_title: Current situation
hierarchical_section_title: Fleetwood branch line / Current situation
caption_attribution_description: English: Poulton-le-Fylde Junction is where the disused Fleetwood Branch Line joins the main line to Blackpool. Photographed from the bridge adjacent to Poulton-le-Fylde railway station.
context_page_description: The Fleetwood branch line consists of the railway line from Preston to Fleetwood. It passed through many smaller stations along the way. When work at Fleetwood docks was under threat in the mid-1960s, the main Fleetwood station was closed; the remainder of the branch south to Poulton followed in 1970. Proposals exist to re-open the branch to passenger services in the near future.
context_section_description: Some of the track is now clear of being overgrown as the northern track was never lifted up past Burn Naze Halt to just beyond Jameson Road Fleetwood although the road bridge was filled in below it. On this stretch the junction is still there where goods trains used to take coal to Fleetwood Power Station. If you look over the road bridge on Jameson Road you can still see the track (to both north & south) through the undergrowth. In the 1990s, the new A585 Amounderness Way bypass was built on the former trackbed, though sufficient space still exists for a reinstated railway should it be required.
caption: Poulton-le-Fylde Junction, where the disused line joins the main line to Blackpool (pictured in 2008)
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