Westleigh railway station

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Coordinates: 53°29′55″N 2°31′36″W / 53.4985°N 2.5268°W / 53.4985; -2.5268
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Westleigh
General information
Location
London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
13 June 1831Station opened as "Leigh"
1 August 1876Renamed "West Leigh" or "Westleigh"
29 March 1954Station closed

Westleigh or West Leigh was a station in Leigh, Greater Manchester, England on the Bolton and Leigh Railway line. Westleigh was situated within the historic county of Lancashire. Its station opened in 1831 and closed in 1954.[1][2]

History

The

London & North Western Railway
.

Structure and operations

1911 map showing the station's location (centre right) to the west of Leigh and south of Westleigh

The station was certainly popular, Sweeney reports that 3,393 tickets were issued at Leigh during the holiday week of 1852. Special trains were run to Newton races and in 1859 fast excursion trains picked up passengers at Leigh on the way to Holyhead to see Brunel's Great Eastern steamship.[3]

West Leigh had both passenger and a goods stations. The passenger station had two platforms. The goods station was on the west side of the line and had a 2 ton capacity crane.[4] Sweeney reports the goods yard closed in 1864 when the yard at Bedford Leigh station opened but it is still listed in by the Railway Clearing House in 1904.[3][5]

In the 1930s up to 20 trains per day operated between Kenyon Junction and

nationalisation in 1948. They were closed by the British Transport Commission six years later in 1954 when the line to Bolton Great Moor Street closed.[7]

Holiday excursion trains and Rugby League specials called at the station up to 1958.[2]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Butt 1995, pp. 141 & 246
  2. ^ a b Westleigh, disused-stations.org.uk, retrieved 23 November 2015
  3. ^ a b Sweeney 1996, p. 53
  4. ISBN 978-1-84784-653-2
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  5. ^ RCH (1904) 1970, p. 569
  6. ^ Sweeney 1996, p. 55
  7. ^ Sweeney 1996, p. 11

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Further reading

External links
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Pennington
Line and station closed 		  Bolton and Leigh Railway
London and North Western Railway 		  Atherleigh
Line and station closed
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