Kenyon Junction railway station

LNWR Lines to Bolton
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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 Loop Line
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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

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

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 
• Holland, Bert (2001), Plodder Lane for Farnworth, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-952-9333-65 
• 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, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-0-6 
• Sweeney, Dennis (2015), A Lancashire Triangle Revisited, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 978-0955003073 

External links

• The station via Disused Stations UK
• The station on a 1948 OS Map via npe maps
• The station on a 1849 OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station on an 1892 series OS map overlay via National Library of Scotland
• The line and mileages via railwaycodes