Euxton Balshaw Lane (EBA) and Balshaw Lane

[vidal]

I note on Real Time Trains that there is the station Euxton Balshaw Lane (EBA) which is goes over the WCML at 90 degrees. About a mile south there is another Balshaw Lane as a location - situated about 1 mile (and approx 5 chains) in the direction of Wigan.

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I've not lived in Euxton long, but I only know of one Balshaw Lane. The only structure I can see on google earth at about the approximate position is a footbridge over the railway.

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So why two Balshaw Lanes?

James

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

The southerly Balshaw Lane on RTT will refer to the junction where the slow lines (through Balshaw Lane station) merge with the fast lines.
It's generally known as Balshaw Lane Jn and is a key junction on the WCML (where stopping passenger trains and freight can be routed off the fast lines).

The structure over the line just south of the junction is I think a signal gantry or one which carries cables across the line.
The junction was remodelled quite recently (for a junction speed of 75mph instead of 50) so the structures on that stretch are still bright and shiny!

 

[vidal]

The southerly Balshaw Lane on RTT will refer to the junction where the slow lines (through Balshaw Lane station) merge with the fast lines.
It's generally known as Balshaw Lane Jn and is a key junction on the WCML (where stopping passenger trains and freight can be routed off the fast lines).

Many thanks - I'd completely missed that!

James

 

[Efini92]

The southerly Balshaw Lane on RTT will refer to the junction where the slow lines (through Balshaw Lane station) merge with the fast lines.
It's generally known as Balshaw Lane Jn and is a key junction on the WCML (where stopping passenger trains and freight can be routed off the fast lines).

The structure over the line just south of the junction is I think a signal gantry or one which carries cables across the line.
The junction was remodelled quite recently (for a junction speed of 75mph instead of 50) so the structures on that stretch are still bright and shiny!

I remember the first time I went over it at 75mph. It didn’t seem right

 

[childwallblues]

The only trains that stop at Euxton Balshaw Lane are those from Liverpool Lime Street to Preston/Blackpool North.

 

[driver9000]

The structure over the line just south of the junction is I think a signal gantry or one which carries cables across the line.
The junction was remodelled quite recently (for a junction speed of 75mph instead of 50) so the structures on that stretch are still bright and shiny!

It's a footbridge and it must be 8 years or more since the speed was raised to 75 too.

 

[Francis]

If you want to photograph trains at Balshaw Lane Jc, there is a footbridge carrying a public footpath off Germans Lane, (off the A49 1/3 mile south of the A581 junction). It starts just where another track comes up from crossing the River Yarrow. Possible to park carefully nearby then just about 100 yds walk.