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?
33. Forgotten Railway Scenes
Running through Wilpshire station on the Ribble Valley line, Aspinall loco No.52447 is seen with a mixed goods train for Blackburn in the summer of 1955. Photo: Ken Roberts from Freight Trains in the North of England by John Matthews | National World
34. Forgotten Railway Scenes
Dignitaries greting the queen at Lancaster Train Station. Councillor Abbot Bryning and Dame Elaine Kellet Bowman are two of the dignitaries in the photograph | National World
35. Forgotten Railway Scenes
This picture shows a steam engine from that long lost era of travel. It can be found at the Ribble Steam Railway and Museum which is dedicated to heritage rail travel. The railway began by housing much of the collection from the previously closed Southport Railway Museum (Steamport), which was based in the old Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway engine shed at Southport | National World