Link

Name

Other Details

Sets of Men

No 1 Link

Mainly Passenger Work

 

8 to 10

No 2 Link

Mainly Passenger & Parcels with some Goods Workings

 

10 to 12

No 3 Link

Goods Link

 

10 to 12

No 4 Link

Goods Link

 

10 to 12

No 5 Link

Spare Link

Covering all Jobs & Rest Days, etc

10 to 12

Disposal

Disposal & Preparation Link

 

8

Trip

Local trip workings

Men on restricted duties, or transferred from other links due to health/eyesight problems

?

Shed Link

Work within shed limits.

Fixed booking-on times of             00-01, 08-00 and 16-00

3

"London Link"

Summer only

Lostock Hall men, although mainly ex-Preston drivers, worked the up 'Lakes Express', with either an un-rebuilt ‘Patriot’, or more often a ‘Britannia’, lodging in London and returning, with a parcels train on alternative days and often with a ‘Duchess’.

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THE SHED LINKS

Compiled from information kindly provided by Paul Tuson, Joseph Booth and John Fletcher.

 

According to former fireman John Fletcher, the drivers in the London link were: Les Rampling, Fred Roberts, Albert Goodwin, Len Parkin, Fireman Jack (Digby) Hesketh.

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