And in its early days, long before more popular modes of transport, our county had hundreds of stations dotted around the rural areas as well as the cities and towns,.
These pictures wrap up long lost and forgotten scenes of the railways, some which have been lost to the history books whilst others are still cruicial transport links.
They remember the days of steam where people often recall the smell of the smoke as the trains thundered by. Packed platforms and lost scenes of those stations which are long gone. Do you have memories of our railways here in Lancashire?
26. Forgotten Railway Scenes
The Lytham Road Station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company can be clearly seen in this photograph from 1905 which appears in the now out of print Blackpool in Old Picture Postcards, collated by Allan W. Wood and Ted Lightbown. The tramlines from South Pier can be seen meeting those on Lytham Road at the junction with Station Road | National World
28. Forgotten Railway Scenes
Coppull Railwasy Station in 1969, Courtesy Lancashire County Council | National World