Preston Park railway station spur tracks which run from Preston Park through a tunnel to . The London Brighton and South Coast Railway opened a new station named "Preston", on 1 November 1869 to serve the growing parish of Preston, then north of the Brighton boundary. The station was enlarged and remodelled to its present design in 1879 during the construction of the Cliftonville Curve spur line from the main line to Hove and the West Sussex coast line. The station was then renamed "Preston Park" although the nearby Preston Park did not exist until 1883. In 1881 the railway murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton
Bamber Bridge railway station Bamber Bridge railway station Bamber Bridge railway station serves the area of Bamber Bridge, England to the south of Preston city centre on the A6 and M6 roads. It is situated on the East Lancashire Line and is managed by Northern. Its railway station, in common with Lostock Hall, was once much larger and used by many more trains than today. Opened in 1846 by the "Blackburn & Preston Railway", it became a junction four years later when the B&PR's successor the East Lancashire Railway opened a direct route to Preston that avoided the need to use the North Union