Kenyon Junction railway station

Kenyon Junction
Location
Place Culcheth
Area Warrington
Coordinates 53°27′49″N 2°32′19″W / 53.4637°N 2.5387°W / 53.4637; -2.5387Coordinates: 53°27′49″N 2°32′19″W / 53.4637°N 2.5387°W / 53.4637; -2.5387
Grid reference SJ642964
Operations
Original company Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms 4[1][2]
History
15 September 1830 (1830-09-15) Opened as Bolton Junction
June 1843 Renamed Kenyon Junction
2 January 1961 Station closed to passengers[3]
1 August 1963 Station closed completely[3]
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Kenyon Junction was a junction railway station at Kenyon on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bolton and Leigh Railway near Culcheth in Warrington, England.[4] It was situated within the historic county of Lancashire. The station opened in 1831 (as Bolton Junction) and closed to passengers on 2 January 1961 before closing completely on 1 August 1963. The junction fell out of use when the line serving Leigh was closed in 1969.[5]

History

In its early years it was referred to as Bolton Junction Station and was officially named Kenyon Junction in 1843. The early station was criticised for poor facilities and missed connections and was reconstructed in 1883.[6] The London and North Western Railway's Tyldesley Loopline from Eccles to the junction west of Tyldesley station continued south west to Leigh, Pennington and Kenyon Junction opened in 1864.[7][8]

The original engine shed closed before 1870. There were large sidings to accommodate goods and coal traffic from Bag Lane, Westleigh, Bickershaw and Abram Collieries and Jacksons and Speakmans Sidings in Tyldesley. There were two signal boxes.[6][9] All stations on the line to Bolton closed in 1954.[10] The stationmasters house still stands and is occupied, complete with its own railway bridge to cross the Manchester to Liverpool line, but can't be seen from the road. In 2001 a proposal to rebuild Kenyon Junction Railway Station, which met with much local opposition, was abandoned following the rejection of plans to build a Leisure Complex in Leigh which the rebuilt station would have served.[5] There is a lobby in the area to rebuild Kenyon Junction Station and build a link to Leigh.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Fields, Gilbert & Knight 1980, Photos 43 & 48
  2. ↑ James 2004, p. 11.
  3. 1 2 Butt 1995, pp. 38 & 130.
  4. ↑ Smith & Turner 2012, Map 45
  5. 1 2 Kenyon Junction Station, subbrit.org.uk, retrieved 2010-09-10
  6. 1 2 Sweeney 1996, p. 61
  7. ↑ Sweeney 1996, p. 71
  8. ↑ Sweeney 2015, pp. 172–180
  9. ↑ Holland 2001, p. 91
  10. ↑ Sweeney 1996, p. 11
  11. ↑ http://www.gmpte.com/upload/library/leighsoc.pdf page 117 Archived 18 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine.

Sources

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Parkside
Line open, station closed		   London and North Western Railway   Pennington
Line and station closed
    Glazebury and Bury Lane
Line open, station closed
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