Maudlands railway station (also known as Maudland railway station, or Preston Maudland(s)) was the original Preston terminus of the

Preston and Wyre Joint Railway The Preston and Wyre Railway was promoted to open up agricultural land in the Fylde in Lancashire, access a new port at what became Fleetwood and the Lancaster Canal at Preston: it opened in 1840. An associated company built the dock leading to ...

to , in

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, England. It was located on Leighton Street. The line and the station opened on 15 July 1840. The line crossed the

Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway The Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway opened its twenty-mile line in 1840 in Lancashire, England. The company was not commercially successful. When the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway opened in 1846, the L&PJR became part of a busy trunk ra ...

(L&PJR) on the level, immediately to the west of the station. By 1844, most of the line's trains were diverted along the L&PJR's line to use the main Preston Station instead. However, Maudlands Station continued to be used for excursions and as a

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for several decades before its eventual closure and demolition, by 1885, to make way for an extension of the

Longridge Branch Line The Preston and Longridge Railway (P&LR) was a branch line in Lancashire, England. Originally designed to carry quarried stone in horse-drawn wagons, it became part of an ambitious plan to link the Lancashire coast to the heart of Yorkshire. The ...

. The remainder of the site was then used for a replacement goods station on the Longridge line which connected from the east. The site is now occupied by Leighton Hall on Leighton Street and by the

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’s Roeburn Hall, with the disused Longridge line running between them. Preston - Roeburn Hall University of Central Lancashire - geograph

Temporary station

For two days in 1991, the station name "Preston Maudlands" was revived for a temporary platform. It was located on the Blackpool Line adjacent to Tulketh Brow, used as a temporary terminus on 9–10 March 1991 to allow bridge maintenance.

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{{City of Preston culture Disused railway stations in Preston Former Preston and Wyre Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1844 1840 establishments in England 1844 disestablishments in England