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Week ending Dec. 14th, 1842. 911 Passengers. £65 10s. 5d. Goods. 62 8 1 127 18 6 Corresponding week in 1843. 1105 Passengers. 88 1 6 Goods. 140 11 9 228 13 3 Corresponding week in 1844. 1601 Passengers. 139 4 6 Goods. 163 18 11 303 3 5 Corresponding week in 1845. 1997 Passengers. 144 12 1 Goods. 234 13 4 379 5 5 Corresponding week in 1846. 2820 Passengers. 243 19 0 Goods. 308 18 5 552 17 5

At the present date, 1876, the average weekly traffic on this railway and its branches to Lytham and Blackpool, amounts in round numbers to £1,200 for passengers, and £800 for goods.

The Preston and Wyre Railway was amongst the earliest formed, and the impression made on the natives of this district, who had been accustomed to the slow-going coaches, must have been one of no little amazement, when, for the first time, they beheld the “iron horse” steaming along the rails at a speed which their past experience of travelling would make them regard as impossible. The following lines were written by a gentleman named Henry Anderton, a resident in the Fylde, on the opening of the railway: