Golborne North railway station

Golborne North
Location
Place	Golborne
Area	Wigan
Coordinates	53°29′08″N 2°35′35″W / 53.485601°N 2.593035°WCoordinates: 53°29′08″N 2°35′35″W / 53.485601°N 2.593035°W
Grid reference	SJ607989
Operations
Original company	Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2[1]
History
1 July 1895[2]	Station opened for goods
3 January 1900[3]	Station opened for passengers as "Golborne"
1 February 1949	Renamed "Golborne North"
3 March 1952	Station closed completely[4]
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GCR Lines to St Helens and Wigan
Legend
Wigan Central Wigan Darlington Street Springs Branch Ince Lower Ince Hindley Southport to M'cr Pemberton, avoiding Wigan Springs Branch Jct "The Whelley Loop" (Lancashire Union Rly) Strangeways West Jct Hindley South Strangeways East Jct Platt Bridge Manchester & Wigan Rly Bickershaw and Abram Park Lane Halt West Leigh and Bedford St Helens Central (GCR) St Helens Central Liverpool to Wigan Line Haydock Haydock Colliery Tunnel Ashton-in-Makerfield Haydock Park Golborne South WCML Golborne North LSH&SLR WJR Lowton St Mary's Jct Lowton St Mary's Kenyon Junction Chat Moss Line Culcheth Newchurch Halt Glazebrook Liverpool-M'cr CLC

Golborne North railway station served the village of Golborne, formerly in Lancashire, now in Wigan, England.^[5]

The station was on the Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway line from Lowton St Mary's to the original St Helens Central railway station. It was located just east of where it crossed both the WCML^[6] and what is now the A573, at the northern edge of the village.^[7][8]

The station was built of wood and had very sparse facilities.^[9][10]

History

Opened by the Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway, as part of the Great Central Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station was referred to locally as "Golborne GC" to distinguish it from the ex-LNWR Golborne station on the West Coast Main Line in the centre of the village. In 1949 the ex-LNWR station was renamed Golborne South and the ex-GCR station was renamed Golborne North.

Services

In 1922 five "down" (towards St Helens) trains called at the station on Mondays to Saturdays. They called at all stations from Manchester Central to St Helens via Glazebrook and Culcheth. ^[11]

By 1948 four trains plied between St Helens Central and Manchester Central, calling at all stations, Monday to Friday, reduced to three on Saturdays. ^[12]

A fuller selection of public and working timetables has now been published. Among other things this suggests that Sunday services ran until 1914, but had ceased by 1922, never to return.^[13]

Closure

The station was closed to all traffic by the British Railways Board in 1952, though goods traffic through the site to St Helens lingered on until 1965, and to a scrapyard west of Ashton thereafter. In 1968 a new connection ("spur") was built connecting an oil terminal and scrapyard west of Ashton-in-Makerfield to the West Coast Main Line. This enabled the line through Golborne North to be closed and lifted.

The site today

By 2005 even seasoned researchers could not tell a railway had ever existed at the station site.^[14]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Lowton St Mary's Line and station closed		Great Central Railway Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway		Haydock Park Line and station closed

References

1. Pixton 1996, p. 120
2. Dow 1965, p. 10
3. Dow 1965, pp. 9-12
4. The station via Disused Stations UK
5. The station on a 1948 OS Map via npe Maps
6. Shannon & Hillmer 2003, p. 92
7. Smith & Turner 2012, Map 45
8. Station and line HOB1 via railwaycodes
9. The station via Disused Stations UK
10. Pixton 1996, p. 120
11. Bradshaw 1922, pp. 714-5
12. 1949 services via Disused Stations UK
13. Sweeney 2014, pp. 105–115.
14. The station via Disused Stations UK

Sources

• Bradshaw (1986), Bradshaw's July 1922 Railway Guide (reprint), Guild Publishing London
• 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.
• Dow, George (1965). Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900-1922. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0263-0.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
• Pixton, Bob (1996), The Archive Photographs Series Widnes and St Helens Railways, The Chalford Publishing Company, ISBN 0 7524 0751 1
• Shannon, Paul; Hillmer, John (2003). British Railways Past and Present, Manchester and South Lancashire No 41. Kettering: Past & Present Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1 85895 197 6.
• Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012), Railway Atlas Then and Now, Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 978 0 7110 3695 6
• Sweeney, Dennis J (2014). The St. Helens and Wigan Junction Railway. Leigh: Triangle Publishing. ISBN 0-85361-292-7.

External links

• The station via Disused Stations UK
• The station on a 1888-1913 Overlay OS Map via National Library of Scotland
• 1949 services via Disused Stations UK
• Station and line HOB1 via railwaycodes
• The station on a 1948 OS Map via npe Maps