Pennington railway station
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General information | |
Location | Pennington, Wigan England |
Coordinates | 53°28′58″N 2°32′05″W / 53.4829°N 2.5346°W |
Grid reference | SJ646985 |
Platforms | 2[1][2] |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway |
Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
Post-grouping | London Midland and Scottish Railway |
Key dates | |
11 June 1831 | Station opened as Bradshaw Leach |
1 February 1877 | Renamed Pennington |
29 March 1954 | Station closed |
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Pennington railway station served Pennington, Leigh, Greater Manchester, England on the Bolton and Leigh Railway. It was situated within the historic county of Lancashire.
The station opened as Bradshaw Leach on the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway in 1831 and was renamed Pennington in 1877. It closed in 1954. The line serving Leigh closed in 1969.
History
[edit]Pennington Station was built when the Bolton and Leigh Railway, which reached the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Leigh in 1830, was extended by the construction of the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway to meet the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Kenyon in 1831.[3]
In 1864 the station became a junction when the Tyldesley Loopline from Tyldesley and Leigh and Bedford, built by the London and North Western Railway, joined the Kenyon and Leigh line just to the north of Bradshaw Leach Station.[4]
The station was renamed Pennington Station in 1877.[5]
The London and North Western Railway built another line via Plank Lane to Platt Bridge and Wigan NW which opened in 1885 creating a three way junction.[6][7]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Railway_Wigan_Newton_Leigh_1911_edited-2.jpg/220px-Railway_Wigan_Newton_Leigh_1911_edited-2.jpg)
Stations on the line became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and were closed by the British Transport Commission six years later in 1954 when the line to Bolton Great Moor Street Station closed.[8] Passenger services on the Tyldesley Loopline did not stop at Pennington but all stations and the line closed following the Beeching Axe on 5 May 1969.[7][9]
The line of the trackbed of the Bolton and Leigh Railway was used as the route of the A579 Leigh bypass.[10]
Structure
[edit]On opening the line was single track and the station buildings, a booking office and waiting room, were on the east side. The line between Pennington and Kenyon Junction was doubled for the opening of the LNWR line from Tyldesley in 1864 and a second platform was constructed with a timber waiting shelter on the new line to the west.[7]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ James 2004, p. 10.
- ^ Suggitt 2004, p. 72.
- ^ Sweeney 2015, pp. 168–171.
- ^ Sweeney 1996, p. 54.
- ^ Butt 1995, p. 42.
- ^ Conolly 1976, p. 45.
- ^ a b c Pennington Station, subbrit.org.uk, retrieved 11 September 2010
- ^ Sweeney 1996, p. 11.
- ^ Sweeney 1996, p. 114.
- ^ Smith & Turner 2012, Map 45.
Bibliography
[edit]- Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Conolly, W. Philip (January 1976), British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer (5th ed.), Shepperton: Ian Allan, ISBN 0-7110-0320-3, EX/0176
- James, David (2004), Lancashire's Lost Railways, Catrine: Stenlake Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84033-288-9
- Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012), Railway Atlas Then and Now, Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7110-3695-6
- Suggitt, Gordon (2004). Lost Railways of Merseyside and Greater Manchester. Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1-85306-869-0.
- Sweeney, D. J. (1996), A Lancashire Triangle Part One, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9529333-0-4
- Sweeney, Dennis (2015), A Lancashire Triangle Revisited, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9550030-7-3
Further reading
[edit]- Holland, Bert (2001), Plodder Lane for Farnworth, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9529333-6-6
External links
[edit]- "The station on a 1948 OS map". npe maps.
- "The station on an 1845 series OS map". National Library of Scotland.
- "The station on an 1888 series OS map overlay". National Library of Scotland.
- "The station and line". railwaycodes.
Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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Kenyon Junction | London and North Western Railway | Plank Lane | ||
Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway | Westleigh | |||
London and North Western Railway | Leigh |
- Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
- Former London and North Western Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1831
- Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1954
- History of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
- Buildings and structures in Leigh, Greater Manchester