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Goose Green

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Railway crossing the A49 at Goose Green
Railway crossing the A49 at Goose Green
Photo: Rev David Long
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Item #: 33376
I think the line can still be traced where it runs along the north side of St Paul's churchyard.

Comment by: AH on 21st October 2021 at 22:00

My wife was born in alfred st goose green her grandmother used to refer to this line as the wagon road,the line ran near St Pauls church and what is now Browning ave and under the Pemberton loop line [new road] and on to wigan pier

Comment by: Susan Mint (Holland) on 26th October 2021 at 23:31

I lived just off Warrington Road, I remember what was left of the old railway line

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