Astley railway station
Astley | |
|---|---|
 Astley signalbox and level crossing | |
| General information | |
| Location | Astley, Wigan England |
| Coordinates | 53°28′14″N 2°27′01″W / 53.4706°N 2.4502°W |
| Grid reference | SJ704973 |
| Platforms | 2[1] |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Original company | Liverpool and Manchester Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Key dates | |
| about 1844 | Station opened |
| 7 May 1956 | Station closed[2] |
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Astley was a railway station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway on Chat Moss to the south of Astley village in what was then the county of Lancashire, England.[3]
History
Opened in the 1840s by the
nationalisation in 1948 and was closed by the British Railways Board on 7 May 1956. It was subsequently demolished.[4]
From 1914 to 1970 a triangular junction 32 chains (0.64 km) east of the station linked the mineral line from Astley Green Colliery north of the Bridgewater Canal to the main line.[5]
The site today
Trains on the now electrified, more northerly of the two
signal box
built since the station's closure occupies part of the site. An electrical switching site is being constructed in the vicinity as part of the Manchester - Liverpool (via Earlestown) section of the NW electrification schemes. The level crossing is locked and unlocked by the signaller, but is operated manually by road users.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flow Moss | Liverpool and Manchester Railway | Lamb's Cottage |
References
Notes
- ^ Fields, Gilbert & Knight 1980, Photo 56
- ^ Butt 1995, p. 20.
- ^ Smith & Turner 2012, Map 45
- ^ Astley, disused-stations.org.uk, retrieved 23 November 2015
- ^ Townley et al. 1995, pp. 326 & 387.
Bibliography
- OL 11956311M.
- Fields, N; Gilbert, A C; Knight, N R (1980), Liverpool to Manchester into the Second Century, Manchester Transport Museum Society, ISBN 0 900857 19 6
- Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012), Railway Atlas Then and Now, Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 978 0 7110 3695 6
- Townley, C. H. A.; Appleton, C. A.; Smith, F. D.; Peden, J. A. (1995), The Industrial railways of Bolton, Bury and the Manchester Coalfield, Part Two, The Manchester Coalfield, Runpast, ISBN 1-870754-32-8
Further reading
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. OCLC 228266687.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. OCLC 22311137.
External links
- The station on a 1948 OS Map via npe maps
- The station on an 1849 OS map via National Library of Scotland
- The line and mileages via railwaycodes
