History
The line was first opened in 1840. In 1966, Fleetwood station was closed, and Wyre Dock station became the terminus; however, four years later in 1970 passenger services were curtailed as far as Poulton-le-Fylde. The line continued as a freight route to access the ICI plant at Burn Naze Halt until 1999, when all traffic on the line ceased.
Read more about this topic: Fleetwood Branch Line
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)