Heywood, Greater Manchester — East Lancashire Railway, Camera 2
The eastern outpost of the East Lancashire Railway
Heywood, Greater Manchester — East Lancashire Railway, Camera 2
East Lancashire Railway — Heywood station, fixed camera looking towards Bury · Heywood, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
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Where this camera films
Camera position: 53.58934, -2.20789
- Location
- Heywood, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
- Railroad
East Lancashire Railway — Heywood station, fixed camera looking towards Bury
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About this cam
Railcam UK's camera on the East Lancashire Railway. The operator states: "East Lancashire Railway - Heywood Station camera2 - This is a fixed camera and looks towards Bury."
The East Lancashire Railway runs twelve miles up the Irwell valley from Bury Bolton Street to Rawtenstall, with a branch east to Heywood, and it is one of the busiest preserved railways in the north of England.
Railcam UK streams a network of cameras along the line. The operator describes this one precisely: "East Lancashire Railway - Heywood Station camera2 - This is a fixed camera and looks towards Bury." It adds that the installation is "one of a whole suite of cameras in partnership with the ELR", and directs viewers to the railway itself at https://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/ for timetables and events.
The streams carry the joint credit "(c) Railcam UK / East Lancashire Railway".
What to watch for
The single line towards Bury and the Heywood platform: the East Lancashire Railway's service trains arriving and reversing, and — because Heywood carries the physical connection to Network Rail — the occasional main-line charter or stock movement coming on to the heritage line.
The camera
- Stream
- YouTube live stream
- Filming
- Passenger station
- Traffic
- Heritage
- Sound
- Live lineside audio — horns and engines
- Hours
- Streams around the clock, 24/7
- Camera movement
- Fixed view
- After dark
- Infrared night view
- Feed checked
- September 7, 2026
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Explore around Heywood
14 places on Spotatrain within 25 km of Heywood — 9 live cams and 5 events.
- Autumn Steam Gala — East Lancashire Railway 6.1 km
- Halloween Ghost Trains — East Lancashire Railway 6.1 km
- Santa Specials — East Lancashire Railway 6.1 km
- Burrs Country Park, Greater Manchester — East Lancashire Railway, Camera 1 6.7 km
- Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester — South, View 1 9.4 km
- Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester — South, View 2 9.5 km
- Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester — North, View 3 9.6 km
- Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester — North, View 4 9.6 km
- The Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express from Manchester — Railway Touring Company 12 km
- Townsend Fold, Lancashire — East Lancashire Railway Level Crossing 13 km
- The Manchester Model Railway Show 13 km
- Rawtenstall, Lancashire — East Lancashire Railway, Signal Box Camera 2 13 km