Newchurch Halt railway station

Newchurch Halt
Location
Place	Culcheth
Area	Warrington
Coordinates	53°26′50″N 2°30′42″W / 53.4471°N 2.5117°WCoordinates: 53°26′50″N 2°30′42″W / 53.4471°N 2.5117°W
Grid reference	SJ660946
Operations
Original company	London and North Eastern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Platforms	2[1]
History
1 February 1943	Station opened
2 November 1964	Station closed
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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

Newchurch Halt railway station was a railway station on the former Wigan Junction Railways line between Glazebrook and Wigan Central.^[2]

History

The station opened on 1 February 1943, to serve nearby military establishments: a Royal Ordnance Factory at Risley, and a Royal Navy training camp.^[3] A single-track private railway left the Wigan line just to the East of Newchurch Halt, and ran South, across a manned Level Crossing at Silver Lane and eventually into the Royal Ordnance Factory.^[4]

The station closed on 2 November 1964, when passenger services were withdrawn from the Wigan line.^[4][5]

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Culcheth Line and station closed		London and North Eastern Railway Wigan Junction Railways		Glazebrook Line closed, station open
				Padgate Line closed, station open

References

1. Sweeney 2014, p. 118
2. British Railway Atlas 1955. Britain's Railways. Shepperton: Ian Allan. November 2000. p. 45, section C3. ISBN 0-7110-2726-9. 0011/C2.
3. Sweeney 2013, pp. 20-22
4. Wright, Paul (20 April 2010). "Newchurch Halt". Disused Stations. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
5. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 169. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.

Sources

• Sweeney, Dennis J (2014). The St. Helens and Wigan Junction Railway. Leigh: Triangle Publishing. ISBN 0-85361-292-7.
• Sweeney, Dennis J (2013). The Wigan Junction Railways. Leigh: Triangle Publishing. ISBN 978-09550030-5-9.

External links

• The station's history via Disused Stations UK
• Newchurch Halt Station on navigable 1948 O.S. map