Glasson Dock to Lancaster Branch Railway

The Railway Only Lasted 47 Years!* | Glasson Dock to Lancaster Branch Railway

Glasson Dock Branch Line to Lancaster | My journey today will explore some of the Dock Branch Railways features from here at the dock, the railway itself, a viaduct, past gas works and Lancaster Railway Station on the West Coast Mainline. ​

​As business improved it’s reputation was spotted by the London and Northwestern Railway as a potential way to improve their portfolio and position on the railway’s stage. Glasson Dock Branch Railway was opened by the London & North Western Railway on 9 July 1883.

Glason Dock 2022

​So if you were to catch a train from Glasson you’d pass along the river lune west over a viaduct to your first and only official station on the line called Conder Green.

Condor Green Viaduct

​With Glasson Dock Station being handed to the Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 it closed seven years later on 7 July 1930 when the last Passenger service left this Station on the westside down-bay platform.

The line remained in place for goods but due to low lying flooding from the sea and the increase of the motor vehicle the final act of train travel occurred in September 1964. That’s when the tracks, gates, signals and sleepers fell eternally silent to the age of steam.

Ashton Hall Halt - Glasson to Lancaster Branch Railway

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​LINKS
The warehouse  has  been suggested it was part of a Lino factory: https://www.lancaster.gov.uk/the-coun...

​Roger Farnworth on Glasson Dock: https://rogerfarnworth.com/2019/11/27...
Lancashire Smoke House: https://www.lancastersmokehouse.co.uk
Visit Glasson: https://www.visitlancashire.com/explo...

Haggis story: Haggis from Lancashire! Haggis is popularly assumed to be of Scottish origin, but many countries have produced similar dishes, albeit with different names. However, the recipes as known and standardised now are distinctly Scottish. The first known written recipes for a dish of the name, made with offal and herbs, are as "hagese", in the verse cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, north west England, and, as "hagws of a schepe" from an English cookbook also of c. 1430.