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The Fairhaven Estate Company was formed to develop the area.
It constructed a railway both to bring in building materials
and to move 1,000s of tons of sand. This line never carried
passengers.
The Fairhaven Estate Light Railway came off
the main line at Ansdell Road and bifurcated at the Double
Stanner. It ran along Outer & Inner Promenade (i.e. around
Fairhaven Lake) and continued to Cartmell Road, St.Annes.
Two engines are known to have operated on
this light railway; "Preston" and Fairhaven"
The railway was removed about 1916
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 The
Fairhaven Estate Railway c1892, looking towards
St.Annes. The railway is seen here running along
both banks of shingle known as the
Double Stanner. This is now the
Lytham end of Fairhaven Lake & Inner Promenade.
An "American Devil" levelling a sand dune, loading the sand
onto a railway wagon, 1892.
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Fairhaven
is the district between Lytham & St.Annes on the
seaward-side of Clifton Drive. In 1890 it was a range of
huge sand dunes; along the coast were two huge banks of
pebbles known as "stanners".