Parkside railway station (Newton-le-Willows)

Parkside
Taking in Water at Parkside, from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831
Location
Place	Lowton
Area	Wigan
Coordinates	53°27′22″N 2°35′22″W / 53.456°N 2.5895°WCoordinates: 53°27′22″N 2°35′22″W / 53.456°N 2.5895°W
Grid reference	SJ609956
Operations
Original company	Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
15 September 1830	Station opened
1839	Station closed to passengers
1839	Replacement station opened to the east
1 May 1878	Station closed completely[1][2]
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Tyldesley Loop Line
Legend
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

Parkside railway station was an original station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It was sometimes referred to in contemporary accounts as "Kenyon".

The station opened with the line on 15 September 1830. It was originally designed as a halt for early locomotives to take on water about halfway along the new line, a process which was recorded in 1830 as taking about seven minutes.^[3] From an early date the water was pre-heated by a lineside boiler.^[4] The boiler's chimney can be seen to the right of the print reproduced here. During the opening ceremony the MP William Huskisson was killed in an accident at the station.

In 1839 the station was relocated approximately 24 chains (480 m) east to accommodate the new line to Preston. The old station remained open for a period as a goods halt, being labelled a "Luggage Station" on the 1849 OS map. The new station closed on 1 May 1878, as the newer locomotives did not need to take on water so frequently. One source states "The watering point was not a station."^[5]

Both stations are long-demolished, but the Huskisson Memorial remains at the original site^[6][7][8] near Newton-le-Willows.^[9] The modern boundary between the Boroughs of St Helens and Wigan runs through the second station site, the first station site is within St Helens.

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 181.
2. The station via Disused Stations UK
3. See Extract from Liverpool Mercury 20 August 1830 via Old-Mersey Times
4. Shaw 1980, Plate XI
5. Shaw 1980, Notes on Plate XI
6. Fields, Gilbert & Knight 1980, Photo 44
7. "Disused Stations: Parkside Station (1st site)". Retrieved 3 March 2015.
8. "Disused Stations: Parkside Station (2nd site)". Retrieved 3 March 2015.
9. "BBC - Liverpool Local History - Lime Street Station - Rainhill Trials". BBC Online. Retrieved 3 March 2015.

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
• Shaw, Isaac (1980), Views of the Most Interesting Scenery on the Line of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Oldham: Aveyard, Broadbent & Co, ISBN 0-904848-05-1

External links

• The station on a 1849 OS Map via National Library of Scotland
• The station sites on a 1948 OS Map via npe maps
• The 1st station via Disused Stations UK
• The 2nd station via Disused Stations UK
• The line and mileages via railwaycodes
• The Huskisson Memorial via British Listed Buildings
• The Huskisson Memorial via Historic England