Atherleigh railway station

v t e LNWR lines to Bolton
Legend
Deansgate Goods Bolton Crook Street Goods Bolton Great Moor Street Original alignment shown in grey Rumworth and Daubhill Daubhill ( original and incline ) Plodder Lane Shed Plodder Lane Chequerbent Chequerbent ( original and incline ) Little Hulton Manchester–Southport line (LYR) to Wigan Wallgate Walkden High Level Atherton Bag Lane Walkden Low Level Hindley Green Howe Bridge Manchester & Wigan Rly to Wigan North Western Plank Lane Tyldesley Loopline Atherleigh Tyldesley Westleigh Ellenbrook Leigh Bolton and Leigh Railway Kenyon & Leigh Junction Rly Worsley Leeds & Liverpool Canal Bridgewater Canal Monton Green Pennington junctions to Bury Pennington Eccles East Lancashire Road Liverpool–Manchester lines Kenyon Junction Bridgewater Canal Liverpool–Manchester lines Some stations omitted in dotted sections

Atherleigh railway station served an area of Leigh in what was then Lancashire, England. It was located on the Bolton and Leigh Railway line which ran from Kenyon Junction to Bolton Great Moor Street.

History

Opened by the

The station structure was a simple wooden building.[4] There was a platform on each side of the tracks.^[5]

The station passed on to the

The station is believed to have been used for Rugby League specials[7] and holiday traffic^[8] after closure.

By 2015 the station site was buried under the

Sources

• OL 11956311M
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• Holland, Bert (2001), Plodder Lane for Farnworth, Leigh: Triangle Publishing,
  ISBN 0-9529333-6-5
• Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012), Railway Atlas Then and Now,
  ISBN 978-0-7110-3695-6
• Sweeney, D. J. (1996), A Lancashire Triangle Part One, Triangle Publishing,
  ISBN 978-0-9529333-0-4

• The station on a 1948 OS map via npe maps
• The closed station on a 1955–61 series OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station and line via railwaycodes