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Whittingham Hospital Railway
The Whittingham Hospital Railway (W.H.R.) was a private light railway operated by Lancashire County Council to serve Whittingham lunatic asylum. Opened in 1889, it carried goods and passengers between Grimsargh on the Preston and Longridge Railway and the hospital grounds. It closed to all traffic in 1957.〔Biddle (1989), 40; see also 18–22 and pl. 45–51
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==The asylum==
The asylum was built in 1873 and enlarged in 1879 to accommodate 2895 patients.〔Jones (1958), 343; Rossbret (2005)〕 Before becoming the hospital, it was the long-time residence of the Waring family. The house was built in 1869 by Cooper and Tullis of Preston, to the designs of Henry Littler for £338,000.〔Parker (1972), 23〕
In the early days of the hospital, all supplies, including coal and provisions, had to be transported by horse and cart from Preston – a distance of – or from Longridge at the terminus of the Preston and Longridge Railway some distant. The cartage was expensive; permanently staffed with a stud of horses and vehicles. In 1884, the significant costs of this operation prompted the authorities to consider building a railway between the hospital and the village of Grimsargh to the southeast.
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