the cricket team. There was also a Ladies' hockey team for many years that was originally made up mainly of workers from the weaving sheds and offices. The mill and a moderately large railway repair depot are now gone, with most inhabitants commuting to work, mainly in Preston. Tardy Gate Mill was then bought by Mr & Mrs Todd, and now houses Todds Motorhomes & camping accessory shop, a snooker hall, a printing business, a car repair garage, and many other small businesses. Education Schools There are four schools in Lostock Hall. Lostock Hall Academy, located on Todd Lane North, is the local secondary school. Lostock Hall Community Primary School is situated on Linden Drive, and covers Key Stage 1 and 2 curriculum. Our Lady And St Gerard's Roman Catholic Primary School is situated on Lourdes Avenue, and covers curriculum for Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Moor Hey School is a special school. Library During the late 1950s and early 1960s, plans were made to create a purpose built library facility in Lostock Hall. Construction took place between 1961 and 1962, and Lostock Hall Library was officially opened by Sir Harry Pilkington on 28 January 1963. The original library consisted of two buildings, which were divided by a central garden area. The central garden area later became roofed in the 1980s to provide a much larger reference library area, with the original reference area being converted into a private office area for the staff to use. A few years passed, and the building came across a few subsidence problems, which were rectified by 1999 when work began on new foundations to cure this problem. Transport Trains Lostock Hall maintains a railway station. The East Lancashire Line on which the station stands is frequently used by railway companies as a bypass for the main West Coast Main Line when that is being closed for engineering works, as it links with the Settle-Carlisle Line. For this reason, excursions frequently travel through the station, attracting railway enthusiasts to the many ideal viewing places. Lostock Hall Locomotive Shed was one of the final steam sheds housing and servicing steam locomotives up to the end of the steam era in Britain in August 1968. Buses Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire operate two regular bus services through Lostock Hall, providing commuter links to nearby towns and villages, including Preston city