Glazebury and Bury Lane railway station

Glazebury and Bury Lane
Location
Place	Culcheth and Glazebury
Area	Warrington
Coordinates	53°28′04″N 2°29′39″W / 53.4677°N 2.4943°WCoordinates: 53°28′04″N 2°29′39″W / 53.4677°N 2.4943°W
Grid reference	SJ674969
Operations
Original company	Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	LMSR
Platforms	2[1]
History
15 September 1830	Station opened as "Bury Lane"
July 1878	Station renamed "Glazebury and Bury Lane"
7 July 1958	Station closed[2]
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Legend
LNWR to Liverpool Lime Street Newton-le-Willows WCML to Warrington Bank Quay Lowton Parkside WCML to Wigan North Western Kenyon Junction Pennington Wigan NW via Plank Lane Bolton Gt Moor St via Chequerbent Glazebury & Bury Ln Flow Moss Leigh Wigan NW via Hindley Green Tyldesley Astley Lamb's Cottage Ellenbrook Barton Moss Bolton Gt Moor St via Walkden Low Level Worsley Monton Green Patricroft Bury via Clifton Hall Tunnel Eccles Jn Eccles LNWR to Manchester Victoria

Glazebury and Bury Lane railway station is a closed railway station between Liverpool and Manchester.^[3]

It was opened on 15 September 1830 by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway as Bury Lane.^[4] In July 1878, it was renamed Glazebury and Bury Lane.^[5] The station closed on 7 July 1958.^[6] OS Map Ref SJ674969.

Listed and mapped in "British railways Pre-Grouping Atlas & Gazeteer" ISBN 0 7110 0320 3

References

1. Fields, Gilbert & Knight 1980, Photo 46
2. Butt 1995, p. 104.
3. Smith & Turner 2012, Map 45
4. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 50. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
5. Butt 1995, pp. 50, 104
6. Butt 1995, p. 104

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.
• 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

External links

• The station via Disused Stations UK
• The station on a 1948 OS Map via npe maps
• The line and mileages via railwaycodes
• The station on a 1849 OS map via National Library of Scotland

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Kenyon Junction Line open, station closed		London and North Western Railway Liverpool and Manchester Railway		Flow Moss Line open, station closed