Bolton Great Moor Street railway station

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Bolton, Great Moor Street
Bolton (Great Moor St.) Station, entrance remains - geograph.org.uk - 1845122.jpg
Great Moor Street Station
General information
Location Bolton, Bolton
England
Coordinates 53°34′31″N2°25′52″W / 53.5754°N 2.4310°W / 53.5754; -2.4310 Coordinates: 53°34′31″N2°25′52″W / 53.5754°N 2.4310°W / 53.5754; -2.4310
Grid reference SD716088
Platforms4 [1] [2]
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
11 June 1831Opened as Bolton
October 1849Renamed Bolton Great Moor Street
1 August 1871Closed for rebuilding [3]
1 April 1875Reopened
29 March 1954Closed to regular passenger traffic
9 July 1958Last holiday excursion departed

Bolton Great Moor Street railway station was the first station in Bolton. It was opened on 11 June 1831 by the Bolton and Leigh Railway.

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Originally named Bolton, it was renamed Bolton Great Moor Street in October 1849. [4] [5] The original street level station was replaced by a temporary station at Bolton Crook Street Goods Yard on 1 August 1871 while the new station was built in a classic Italian style. It opened either on 1 April 1875 [4] or on 28 September 1874 on the same site as the original station but at a higher level. The rebuilt station had four platforms covered by a roof. [6] Its reconstruction coincided with the building of the direct line to Manchester Exchange via Walkden Low Level by the London and North Western Railway which opened on 1 April 1875.

Local trains to and from Kenyon Junction via Chequerbent used the station's western platforms 1 & 2 whilst trains to and from Manchester Exchange via Walkden used Platforms 3 & 4. [7]

The station closed for regular passenger use by British Railways on 29 March 1954, [4] although holiday [8] and football specials ran until 1958 [9] and an unadvertised workmen's service to Monton Green continued for some months. [10] An enthusiasts' special visited on 21 September 1963 and on 9 May 1964 another visited the adjacent Crook St goods yard, this was the last passenger train on LNWR lines in the Bolton area. [11]

Tracks in the station were lifted in April 1964. [12] The station was demolished in October 1966 and the area redeveloped. [5]

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Chequerbent railway station was in Westhoughton to the south-west of Bolton, Greater Manchester, on a deviation of the original Bolton Great Moor St to Kenyon Junction line. The station replaced an earlier station on the original line of the railway that had been served by a stationary engine. It was open from 1885 until 1952 for passengers and 1965 for freight.

Plodder Lane railway station served the southern part of Bolton and the western, Highfield, part of Farnworth.

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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 St 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.

Daubhill railway station was a station on the original route of the Bolton and Leigh Railway. It served the Daubhill area of south west Bolton. It was open from 1831 until its replacement in 1885 by a later station.

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Plodder Lane engine shed was built by the LNWR to coincide with expanding its operations in the Bolton area in the 1870s and in particular the opening of a direct route from Bolton Great Moor Street station to Manchester via Walkden in 1875.

The Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway (K&LJR) was constructed to link the Bolton and Leigh Railway (B&LR), which terminated at the Leigh Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) at Kenyon.

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Holland 2001, p. 14
  2. ↑ James 2004, p. 9.
  3. ↑ Holland 2001, p. 19
  4. 1 2 3 Butt 1995 , p. 38
  5. 1 2 Bolton Great Moor Street, subbrit.org.uk, retrieved 17 May 2010
  6. ↑ Sweeney 1996 , p. 8
  7. ↑ Holland 2001 , p. 32
  8. ↑ Holland 2001 , pp. 78–9
  9. ↑ Holland 2001 , pp. 112 & 152
  10. ↑ Holland 2001 , p. 54
  11. ↑ Holland 2001 , pp. 84–5 & 113
  12. ↑ Holland 2001 , p. 152

Bibliography

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Terminus  London and North Western Railway
via Roe Green Junction		  Plodder Lane
Line and station closed
  London and North Western Railway
Bolton and Leigh line 		  Rumworth and Daubhill
Line and station closed
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