Ormskirk - Segmented
I recall this being the caption in a Railway Magazine photo from the days when I started buying it.
Ormskirk was downgraded in 1970 with one line bisected by a pair of buffers where services from Liverpool and Preston would reverse.
The former were operated by the classic LMS 502 EMUs, fondly remembered from journeys into Liverpool Exchange on Mystexes from Edinburgh, but by the time I visited in 1982 these had just been replaced by the 507 seen here.
The "bypass" line had not seen any use for quite some time, and would later be removed.
Ormskirk - Segmented
I recall this being the caption in a Railway Magazine photo from the days when I started buying it.
Ormskirk was downgraded in 1970 with one line bisected by a pair of buffers where services from Liverpool and Preston would reverse.
The former were operated by the classic LMS 502 EMUs, fondly remembered from journeys into Liverpool Exchange on Mystexes from Edinburgh, but by the time I visited in 1982 these had just been replaced by the 507 seen here.
The "bypass" line had not seen any use for quite some time, and would later be removed.