Bolton Crook Street railway station

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Bolton, Crook Street
General information
Location Bolton, Greater Manchester, Bolton
England
Coordinates 53°34′24″N2°25′52″W / 53.5734°N 2.4312°W / 53.5734; -2.4312
Grid reference SD716088
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Bolton and Leigh Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 August 1871Opened as temporary terminus
28 September 1874Closed to passengers [1]
1 October 1967Closed for freight

Bolton Crook Street passenger station was a purely temporary facility within the Bolton Crook Street goods yard, devised by the LNWR for use while their nearby Great Moor Street station was demolished and rebuilt. It was used as such from August 1871 to September 1874, after which it reverted to use solely for goods.

Contents

The temporary passenger station's exact location within the goods yard is believed to be the goods shed on the eastern side of Chandos Street. [2]

Sources differ on whether Great Moor St station reopened in September 1874 [3] or April 1875. [4] The original service to Kenyon Junction was provided continuously from 1831 to 1954. Still, the new, additional service to Manchester Exchange via Roe Green Junction and Walkden Low Level by the London and North Western Railway did not start until 1 April 1875, when it ran from Great Moor Street. It is therefore possible that Crook Street handed the Kenyon Junction traffic to the new Great Moor Street station in 1874.

Accidents

On 29 October 1875, an accident occurred at Roe Green Junction but the official register of accidents gives no actual details

On 16 March 1918 a goods train from Little Hulton "ran away" on the falling gradients towards Bolton. An alert signalman diverted it into Crook Street depot where it crashed through buffer stops, crossed cobbled land, crashed through a boundary wall and into the cellar of a house on Crook Street. The crew had jumped clear and, remarkably, no-one was hurt. [5]

Closure

After a long period of decline the Crook Street goods depot was finally closed to all traffic on 1 October 1967. [6]

The site has been redeveloped in the years since and by 2015 no trace of its railway origins could be seen.

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References

  1. ↑ Holland 2001, p. 19
  2. ↑ Holland 2001 , p. 19
  3. ↑ Holland 2001 , p. 19
  4. ↑ Butt 1995 , p. 38
  5. ↑ Dart 2010, p. 72.
  6. ↑ Holland 2001 , p. 151

Sources

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Terminus  London and North Western Railway
Bolton and Leigh Railway 		  Daubhill
Line and station closed
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