Little Hulton railway station

Little Hulton
Location
Place	Little Hulton
Area	Salford
Coordinates	53°31′43″N 2°24′59″W / 53.5285°N 2.4163°WCoordinates: 53°31′43″N 2°24′59″W / 53.5285°N 2.4163°W
Grid reference	SD725036
Operations
Original company	Little Hulton Extension Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
1 April 1875	Station opened
29 March 1954	Station closed[1]
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LNWR Lines to Bolton
Legend
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

Salford Lines
Legend
Past, present and future  to Wigan Wallgate to Bolton Great Moor Street to Wigan North Western Little Hulton Ellenbrook Walkden Low Level Walkden High Level to Lime Street Moorside |to Bolton Barton Moss | Worsley Swinton | Dixon Fold Patricroft | Monton Green Pendlebury |to Bury Irlams-o'-th'-Height Eccles | Eccles Clifton Junction Ladywell Agecroft Bridge Weaste | Weaste Brindle Heath Jct | Agecroft Jct Langworthy | Seedley Pendleton Bridge Broadway Cross Lane | Pendleton MediaCityUK Harbour City Salford Crescent Anchorage Salford Docks Salford Quays Windsor Link Exchange Quay Ordsall Lane | Oldfield Road to Manchester (Metrolink) Ordsall Chord(under construction) Salford Central to Manchester (Deansgate) to Manchester (Victoria)

Little Hulton railway station served the village of Little Hulton, Greater Manchester, England.

History

The station was opened on 1 April 1875 by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), on the line from Roe Green Junction to Bolton Great Moor Street. It was situated on the north side of the turnpiked Manchester to Chorley road at Little Hulton.

The LNWR proposed naming the station Streetgate but was overruled by the Little Hulton Local Board.^[2]

The line and station closed to regular passenger traffic in 1954, with the last train calling on Saturday 27 March.^[3]

By 2015 the trackbed through the station site formed part of National Cycle Network Route 55.

References

Notes

1. Butt 1995, p. xxx
2. Sweeney 1997, p. 272
3. Holland 2001, p. 111

Bibliography

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995), The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens, ISBN 1-85260-508-1
• Holland, Bert (2001), Plodder Lane for Farnworth, Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-6-5
• Sweeney, D.J. (1997), A Lancashire Triangle Part Two, Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-2-2

External links

• The station on a 1948 OS map via npe maps
• The station on an 1888 series OS map overlay via National Library of Scotland
• The station and line via railwaycodes

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Plodder Lane Line and station closed		LNWR		Walkden Low Level Line and station closed