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If this line was re-opened there would be a direct link to Manchester and Preston, thereby potentially removing hundreds of cars from the roads.This 11.5 mile line was closed in the 1970s.

Current signatories

Because there are so many signatories, only the most recent 500 are shown on this page.

• Tim Holmes
• christopher simpson
• Geoffrey A Ball
• Jonathan Glasgow
• Terry Piper
• Joe Crossley
• Antony Sorfleet
• adrian sorfleet
• Duncan Hazelden
• Matt Nash
• DENIS HAWKINS
• Robin Graham
• David Hart
• william hunt
• Guy Butler
• Dominic McCann
• Robin Lancaster
• Barbara Wilson
• Malcolm Jevons MBE
• J B Walker
• Matt Purcell
• Andy Shackleton
• Andrea Staltmeier
• Brian Daniel
• stephen james bamber
• Jean Lambert MEP
• Mervyn Smith
• Stephen Andrew Smith
• Paul Greenhalgh
• Neil Turner
• Ralph Lawson
• barry cunningham
• andrew duerden
• eva cartmell
• allan preston
• Raymond Knowles
• Barrie Pepper
• Peter James Haywood
• William Etherington
• Adam G. Jones
• Benjamin Hughes
• GRAHAM CHALMERS
• Robert Pierce
• Peter Comerford
• M D Griffiths
• Chris Hawkridge
• Chris Johnson
• Joan Etherington
• Michael Holehouse
• John Harrison
• Michael Hanford
• Joanne Holden
• F. Milne
• David M. McDowell
• Fiona Hall MEP
• John Hayward
• Andrew Stephenson (Pendle Conservatives)
• Paul Bignell
• Paul R Cracknell
• Tristram Stuart
• Dawn Lange
• Christopher Calnan
• francis salt
• Ashley
• Steve Henderson ( Gill Taxis )
• David Higton
• Graham Ellingham
• Nigel Wiggins
• Roger Smith
• Peter Horton
• John Makin
• Owen Peake
• jill Woollacott
• Julian Laskiewicz
• asif.qurashi
• Captain David Carter
• Alan Holden
• michael walters
• john peter sanderson
• David K Foat
• Yvonne Tennant
• David Johns
• Thomas Claydon
• Terry Hartley
• John Boardman
• David Johnson
• Peter Wilkinson
• Keith Holmes
• David Geoffrey Hunt
• Walter Stafford
• Christine Dawson
• Edward Myers
• Steve Cartman
• perry hargraves
• Gerald Harwood
• judith gledhill
• David Saville
• Joanne Wainman
• John D Wylde
• Sheila Smith
• A Bamford
• Brian Ray
• Sally Nicholson
• Charles Margetts
• Rosemary Makin
• Lisa Schilz
• Frank Nicholas Adam, line would benefit Scotland London diversions
• Bill Seed
• jack parkinson
• Councillor John Cameron
• Paul Berry
• richard faulkner
• Paul Kenyon
• Matthew Scrivin
• Dr. T.A.Pickles
• C.Knowles
• Norman Haworth
• Alison St Pierre
• Shaun Morris-Armitage
• Graham Peacock
• John Bull
• Richard Bywater
• John Stormont
• ellen meredith
• Peter Robinson
• Paul Seton
• Geoff Bell
• Adam Howard
• Tim Burdett
• Rosemary Thomas
• Roger Wells Catterall
• J. Karkoszka
• Colin Riggs
• Hayley Smith
• Murray Riggs
• judie collins
• Phillip Sanderson
• Michael Metcalfe
• Margaret Metcalfe
• vivienne carrington
• Steve Roman
• Paul Cockerton
• Chris Tennant
• Martin Cinnamond
• John Cahill
• frank atkinson
• E. J. Eele
• Cathy Bennett
• Charles Ashbury
• Ashley Weir
• JAMES NIGHTINGALE
• robert thomas
• Martin Addison-Atkinson
• Gwen Moore
• Christopher T Metcalfe
• Alan bolton
• Richard Scott Clarke
• Wendy Newhouse
• Mr Martin Parker
• Professor Jeremy Rayner
• Mark Ashton
• G I McAdam
• Mark Rowe
• Tim Frost MBE
• S G Scholes
• TOCKHOLES PARISH COUNCIL
• Christopher Curling
• Paul Williams
• Paul Kirkup
• Stephen Prust
• Chris Spence
• Martyn Holt
• Malcolm Huntly
• Andrew Fall
• Peter Croft
• Geoff Smith
• R J presland
• Jane Stafford
• Alisdair McNicol
• Kathryn Lynn
• Pauline Wood
• PAULINE HARRISON
• Allan Horsfall
• Eric Beardsworth
• Sue Kingsbury
• Emmerson Walgrove
• J. Entwistle (Mrs.)
• Martin Smith
• John Pratt
• Edward Harris
• Alan Rowlandson
• william knowles
• Howard Bradley
• Steve Lee
• leslie simpson
• Peter Ryder
• Dr. Barry Worthington
• Mrs.Rita Smith
• Isobel Solabarrieta
• John Aplin ASLEF Branch Secretary, Blackpool
• Alan Sedgwick
• Kevin Aughton
• Mark Bithell
• Paul D. Fairhurst
• Tracey G. Fairhurst
• Lucca C. Fairhurst
• JOHN GRIBBLE
• Harry Kenyon
• Mark Everson
• Michael O'Neill
• Jean Franey
• Christine.M.Robinson
• Peter Wells
• David Gregson
• David Brown
• Janet Mitchell
• Ken Wilson
• Muriel Elsie O'Neill
• rita smith
• Dave Emms
• Terry Buckley
• Richard Barker
• Barry K Mooney
• Joe Pritchard
• robert watson
• joan bolton
• Neil Taylor
• Paul Settle
• Phil Greaves
• Donald Jay
• Roz Handley
• ke mullaney
• John Stephen Moyes
• Peter Hill
• Elizabeth Hill
• peter appleby
• Tony Kirby
• Raymond Sagar
• OLWYN PRATT
• Craig Williams
• Roger Seddon
• j d twomlow149
• Laurie Kelly
• Stella Dudzi
• Betty Downing
• R J Rowles
• Colin Myers
• Sarah Davies (darlingrailways)
• Angus Brennan
• Stanley Graham
• Arthur Bardsley
• Katharine Cheney
• Gloria Greenwood
• Carole St John Clouter
• Blair Duncan
• Jennifer Purcell
• belinda mccarthy
• MR D M VARLEY
• Chris Laycock
• Gerald Anthony Broughton
• David Whipp
• Richard Powderhill
• Simon Walsh
• Tim Coyne
• Philip Dunn-Birch
• Nicholas Turner
• Patricia Turner
• Heather Sheldrick
• John Turley
• Andy Hill
• Dave Wheelwright
• Toby Harling
• f blake
• Thomas Davey
• Gareth Wooler
• Richard Norris
• Paul Hatherley
• eric hepper
• John Harrison
• Marilyn Kent
• Michael Kent
• Brian Bird
• Tessa Bird
• john smith
• Martin McKay
• Colin Sinclair
• Stephen Lax
• Michael Ralley
• Alan Smith
• William Cunliffe
• Stephen Normington
• Valerie Norris
• Lillian Winter
• Martin Thurston
• Michael Johnston
• David Harris
• Mrs D Edmondson
• Walter J Xerri
• Damian Mizzi
• Stephen Featherstone
• Terence Bermingham
• denis croasdale
• Mark Robinson
• Elisabeth
• Walter Girdley
• Michael Owen
• Nick Heffer-Rahn
• andrew gilbert
• Alan Hirst
• GEORGE POLLARD
• jonathan phillips
• Antony Burrow
• Jean Burrow
• Alida Hill
• John Williamson
• Jenny Williamson
• Allyson Riley
• Stephen Jones-Crabtree
• David Mitchell
• Emily Stirk
• ANJA TRICK
• James Kelly
• Colin Bickley
• Nicky Rose
• jonathan riley
• marc lane
• L Stevenson
• Pippa Stevenson
• Hilary Clarke
• Dominic Evans
• William Bryan Rogerson
• Henry R. Stewart
• Ruth Harrison
• Bruce Williamson
• Julian Perkins
• Joseph Valentine
• Jennifer Wood
• Malcolm Wrigglesworth
• Richard Hirst
• Ashley Sutcliffe
• Lord Best
• bethy harris
• Gordon Webster
• Robert L Blackburn
• Jeremy Clarke
• Charles Leeming
• Martin Exley
• Phil Durrell
• Peter Barnes
• David Smith
• Michael Tarran
• S H Potter
• sandra perry
• Joan Peel
• John Walsh
• Dr John R Hampson
• William Heald
• Ian Barrett
• Paul Koller
• Malcolm Clark
• Lucy Wilkinson
• Dorothy Mallon
• Andrea Jane Lee
• James Roe
• Eddie Fisher
• Jeffrey Banks
• John Padgett
• R. T. Rossall
• Steven Frais
• Carl Wainwright
• Ian Graham
• John Bennett
• Paul-Adrian Standrill
• David Ruffle
• Andrew Durrant
• Noel Broadgate
• Geoffrey Harrison
• Frank Ashworth
• Mr & Mrs George Dickinson
• Graham Chapman
• l w regardsoe
• Mario Papworth
• John Pickering
• Steve Willey
• Heather Barnett
• Ian Teet
• Clare Aggus
• Ann Hoyle
• helen groves
• Gill Howard
• Ann Kolodziejski
• Rob Dee
• John Kolodziejski
• Dawn Whiteley
• MR F.G CULLIGAN
• M Burrows
• Andrew Rawnsley
• Philip Holgate
• Steven Beesley
• Darrin Godfrey
• Eric C. Godfrey
• Kenneth Edmondson
• SIMON RAWKINS
• Andrew Dyson
• Edwin Farrar
• Andy Ryland
• David Banks
• Patrick Lawless
• Nick Beeson
• John Hufferdine
• ALAN CHAPMAN
• Michael Price
• Alan Taylor
• Sarah Steers
• Keith Stewart
• Mike Rapp
• Matt St Pierre
• Gareth Weston
• Tim Moon
• Lawrence Hanney
• Howard J. Piltz
• Dr Jen Waring
• Jeff McCABE
• John Bulmer
• David Westerman
• Rex Holt
• David Long
• David Shaw
• nicola madill
• Nicholas Lander
• john stretton
• KHAN ROSE
• Craig Mckenzie
• Mr. M. I. Kenyon
• Joanne Duffy
• Alasdair MacCaluim
• Nicholas Cotterell B.Sc MBCS
• Eric Wilkinson
• Paul Colbeck
• Peter J Heaton
• Michael Fulton
• Clive Warren
• C N Whittham
• Peter Carney
• David Orford
• malcolm edmundson
• John Littler
• Bob Hinchliffe
• Rachel Cossins
• Mick Collins
• Richard Wood
• Kenneth Hartley
• MARGARET CANNON
• Robin Johnson
• Lynn Loader
• John D Anderson
• David Ward
• Peter Yates
• Darren Axe
• Darren Bowden
• C G Sandercock
• Freddie Cannon
• Neil Brotherston
• Jonathon Bowden
• Tony Harvey
• KEITH WILSON
• Simon Stollery
• John Tickner
• Christopher Sampson
• Wendy Sampson
• A H G St Pierre
• David St Pierre
• matthew fox
• Mary Hartley
• David Edlin
• Simon Mortimer
• Wayne Boyle
• Peter J Laidlaw
• colin smith
• Mike Bailey
• Stuart Carlton
• Lachlan Main
• Glynis Padgett
• Robert Graham Nalty
• Tom Haworth
• Laura Russell
• Elinor Badminton
• Glenys Barnes
• Edith Sheldrick
• Alan Hobbs
• Peter Broomfield
• dawn odgers
• m taylor
• Peter Rathmell
• David Tate
• Dr Russell Sheldrick
• david mould
• Rosalind Whitham
• Jillian Boulton
• Matt Bullock

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