Tyldesley railway station

Tyldesley
Location
Place	Tyldesley
Area	Wigan
Coordinates	53°30′45″N 2°28′06″W / 53.5124°N 2.4684°WCoordinates: 53°30′45″N 2°28′06″W / 53.5124°N 2.4684°W
Operations
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	3
History
1 September 1864	Station opens
5 May 1969	Station closes
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Manchester to Wigan Line
Legend
WCML to Preston Wigan North Western Standish via Whelley Loop Liverpool Lime Street via St Helens Platt Bridge WCML to Warrington Bank Quay Wigan Central and Whelley Loop Bickershaw & Abram Glazebrook via Lowton St Mary's Plank Lane Kenyon Junction via Pennington Hindley Green Kenyon Junction via Pennington Atherleigh Bolton Gt Moor St via Chequerbent Howe Bridge Kenyon Junction via Pennington Leigh Tyldesley Jct Tyldesley Ellenbrook Bolton Gt Moor St via Walkden Low Level Worsley Kenyon Junction via Chat Moss Monton Green Patricroft Clifton Junction Eccles Jct Eccles Manchester Exchange or Manchester Victoria

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

Tyldesley railway station is a closed railway station in Greater Manchester. It was situated within the historic county of Lancashire.

History

Tyldesley station, in common with other stations on the Manchester to Wigan Line, was opened by the London and North Western Railway on 1 September 1864.^[1] At a junction to the west of Tyldesley station, the line to Wigan North Western railway station headed north west and the branch to Bedford Leigh, Pennington and Kenyon Junction headed south west. The station joined the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the grouping in 1923. It passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station closed on 5 May 1969.

Coal mining was the chief motivation for building a railway in the area and the railway's supporters included many local colliery owners and industrialists.^[2] Collieries linked to the railway include Astley and Tyldesley Collieries' St George's, Nook and Gin Pit Collieries in Tyldesley connected at Jackson's sidings to the west of the station and the Shakerley, Green's Tyldesley Coal Company and Ramsden's Shakerley Collieries had connections at sidings approximately one mile to the east of Tyldesley station.^[3]

The Tyldesley Loopline closed following the Beeching Axe on 5 May 1969 and Tyldesley and all other stations along the line were closed.^[4]

The former trackbed within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan area was reserved in the Unitary Development Plan in case the rail route could be reinstated. The cutting in Tyldesley was filled in and the line of the railway was a footpath. The proposal for the Leigh-Tyldesley area, a guided bus^[5] along the former trackbed from Leigh to the A580 East Lancashire Road at Ellenbrook was approved in 2005. Construction of the Leigh-Salford-Manchester Bus Rapid Transit route through the site of the station began in 2013.^[6]

External links

• Link to photographs

References

Notes

1. Sweeney 1996, p. 72
2. Sweeney 1996, p. 71
3. Sweeney 1996, p. 92
4. Sweeney 1996, p. 114
5. Leigh Salford Manchester Busway Project (PDF), brtuk.org, retrieved 2010-02-28
6. Work starts on Greater Manchester’s first guided busway, Transport for Greater Manchester, retrieved 18 September 2013

Bibliography

• Sweeney, D. J. (1996), A Lancashire Triangle Part One, Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-0-6

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Howe Bridge		London and North Western Railway		Ellenbrook
Leigh