Atherton Bag Lane railway station

Atherton Bag Lane
Location
Place	Atherton, Greater Manchester
Area	Wigan
Coordinates	53°31′46″N 2°30′19″W / 53.5294°N 2.5053°WCoordinates: 53°31′46″N 2°30′19″W / 53.5294°N 2.5053°W
Grid reference	SD667038
Operations
Original company	Bolton and Leigh Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2[1]
History
11 June 1831	Opened as Bag Lane
1847	Renamed Atherton
2 June 1924	Renamed Atherton Bag Lane
29 March 1954	Closed to passengers[2]
7 October 1963	Station closed
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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

Atherton Bag Lane railway station served an area of Atherton, Greater Manchester in what was then Lancashire, England. It was located on the Bolton and Leigh Railway line which ran from Bolton Great Moor Street to Leigh Station and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and later to Kenyon Junction.

History

Opened by the Bolton and Leigh Railway it became part of the London and North Western Railway, the station joined the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping in 1923. It 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.

The site is a wooded area at the corner of two roads.

Service

References

1. Holland 2001, pp. 44 & 108
2. Butt 1995, p. 21

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
• 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. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.

External links

• The station on a 1948 OS map via npe maps
• The station on an 1845 series OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station on an 1892 series OS map overlay via National Library of Scotland
• The station via Disused Stations UK
• The station and line via railwaycodes