Pennington railway station

Pennington
Location
Place	Pennington
Area	Wigan
Coordinates	53°28′58″N 2°32′05″W / 53.4829°N 2.5346°WCoordinates: 53°28′58″N 2°32′05″W / 53.4829°N 2.5346°W
Grid reference	SJ646985
Operations
Original company	Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2[1]
History
11 June 1831	Station opened as Bradshaw Leach
1 February 1877	Renamed Pennington[2]
29 March 1954	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

Tyldesley Loopline
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

Pennington railway station served Pennington, Leigh, Greater Manchester, England on the Bolton and Leigh Railway. It was situated within the historic county of Lancashire.

The station opened as Bradshaw Leach on the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway in 1831 and was renamed Pennington in 1877. It closed in 1954. The line through the site serving Leigh closed in 1969.^[3]

History

Pennington Station was built when the Bolton and Leigh Railway, which reached the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Leigh in 1830, was extended to meet the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at Kenyon in 1831.^[4] In 1864 the station became a junction when the Tyldesley Loopline from Tyldesley and Leigh and Bedford, built by the London and North Western Railway, joined the Kenyon and Leigh line just to the north of Bradshaw Leach Station.^[5] The station was renamed Pennington Station in 1877. Another line via Plank Lane to Platt Bridge and Wigan NW opened in 1885 creating a three way junction.^[3]

1911 Map showing the location of the station (lower centre right) and the three way junction to its north

Stations on the line became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, and were closed by the British Transport Commission six years later in 1954 when the line to Bolton Great Moor Street Station closed.^[6] Passenger services on the Tyldesley Loopline did not stop at Pennington but all stations and the line closed following the Beeching Axe on 5 May 1969.^[3][7]

The line of the trackbed of the Bolton and Leigh Railway was used as the route of the A579 Leigh Bypass.^[8]

References

Notes

1. James 2004, p. 10.
2. Butt 1995, p. 42
3. Pennington Station, subbrit.org.uk, retrieved 2010-09-11
4. Sweeney 2015, pp. 168–171
5. Sweeney 1996, p. 54
6. Sweeney 1996, p. 11
7. Sweeney 1996, p. 114
8. Smith & Turner 2012, Map 45

Bibliography

• 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.
• James, David (2004), Lancashire's Lost Railways, Stenlake Publishing, ISBN 1-84033-288-3
• Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012), Railway Atlas Then and Now, Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7110-3695-6
• Sweeney, D. J. (1996), A Lancashire Triangle Part One, Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-0-6
• Sweeney, Dennis (2015), A Lancashire Triangle Revisited, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9550030-7-3

Further reading

Holland, Bert (2001), Plodder Lane for Farnworth, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-6-5

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 1888 series OS map overlay via National Library of Scotland
• The station and line via railwaycodes