Atherleigh railway station

Atherleigh
Location
Place	Leigh
Area	Wigan
Coordinates	53°30′28″N 2°31′15″W / 53.5077°N 2.5208°WCoordinates: 53°30′28″N 2°31′15″W / 53.5077°N 2.5208°W
Grid reference	SD656013
Operations
Original company	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2[1]
History
14 October 1935	Station opened
29 March 1954	Station closed completely[2]
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LNWR Lines to Bolton
Legend
Deansgate Goods Bolton Great Moor St Bolton Crook Street Original alignment shown in green Rumworth & Daubhill Daubhill 1831 Plodder Lane Shed Plodder Lane Chequerbent Chequerbent 1831 Little Hulton Wigan Wallgate Manchester-Southport LYR Walkden High Level Walkden Low Level Atherton Bag Lane Wigan NW Manchester & Wigan Rly Atherleigh Westleigh Worsley Leigh Plank Lane Bridgewater Canal Tyldesley Loopline Monton Green Pennington Eccles Kenyon Junction Lime St-Manchester Chat Moss Line

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 London Midland and Scottish Railway, the station passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, only to be closed by the British Transport Commission six years later.

After closure

The station is believed to have been used for Rugby League specials^[3] and holiday traffic^[4] after closure.

By 2015 the station site was buried under the A579 road.^[5]

References

1. Holland 2001, p. 73
2. Butt 1995, p. 21
3. Holland 2001, p. 73
4. The station's history via Disused Stations UK
5. Smith & Turner 2012, Map 45

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• 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, Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7110-3695-6

External links

• The station's history via Disused Stations UK
• 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