Leigh railway station


Can anyone tell Me where Leigh railway station was, I remember a railway bridge on the road not far from the Sportsman pub.
Started: 29th Mar 2017 at 14:46

The main one was at the top of Bradshawgate,the other one was at the top of Railway road,they were on different lines though.
Replied: 29th Mar 2017 at 16:12
When did they close down...the Beecham years?
Replied: 29th Mar 2017 at 21:47

I don't know when they closed Roy,I left Leigh in 1958,the line near Railway Rd was where Atherleigh Way is now,the bypass is built on the old track,we went to Blackpool North from the main station.
Replied: 29th Mar 2017 at 23:38
I used to go to Leigh baths every Saturday morning from Golborne on the bus but can't remember seeing the stations...would be 1961/62
Replied: 30th Mar 2017 at 08:54

The baths were in Silk St,if you only went to there by bus you wouldn't see any station,the main one was where Travis Perkins is now,a couple of the railway arches are still there at the end of the building,there are no signs of the one at the end of Railway Rd,there was a third station in Leigh,Atherleigh station.
Replied: 30th Mar 2017 at 09:48
I'm not aware of a Leigh station as such but there was Atherleigh station and Atherleigh Bag Lane station, both of which are listed on the disused stations website:
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/a/atherleigh/index.shtml
Not every station in the area was closed as a direct result of the Beeching axe. A lot of stations were in decline many years prior to the 60s, with quite a number of stations being closed to passengers and goods even in the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s.
Shame we don't have these stations now.
Replied: 30th Mar 2017 at 10:03
west leigh?, pennington 1953,leigh 1969.
Replied: 30th Mar 2017 at 12:30
Last edited by baker boy: 30th Mar 2017 at 12:32:34
I can't believe a town like Leigh has not got a railway station. I love Leigh. It puts our Wigan Market to shame.
Replied: 30th Mar 2017 at 18:29


Thanks Everyone
Replied: 31st Mar 2017 at 17:32


'Leigh' is a big area. Stations close to Leigh include Westhoughton (2), Atherton (2) Newton le Willows (2) and Glazebrook.
There are parts of Leigh that are closer to those stations than they would be to a station in Leigh centre.
Replied: 1st Apr 2017 at 18:44
Last edited by tonker: 1st Apr 2017 at 22:54:35
think your geography has fell flat on its face this time tonks.
1960's leigh council must have been on something wacky to allow closure of its railway.
Replied: 3rd Apr 2017 at 22:48

baker boy
Members of Leigh Council might well have been on Wacky Bakky during the 1969's however the station closed in 1954 and that would have been at the behest of British Rail and as such would have had nothing to the doo with Leigh Council
Replied: 3rd Apr 2017 at 23:31

Leigh's main station closed in 1969,Westleigh station at the top of Railway Rd closed in 1954,but it was a small station,Atherleigh Way is where the rail tracks used to be.
Replied: 3rd Apr 2017 at 23:49

spud1
You are right I am getting mixed up with Westleigh Station
Replied: 4th Apr 2017 at 00:10
So the railway ran behind Hilton park between the ground and the collieries
Replied: 4th Apr 2017 at 10:14

It did Roy,where the traffic lights are now at Kirkhall lane there was a level crossing and an overhead footbridge.
Replied: 4th Apr 2017 at 12:03
Wow..as a youngster I would go to Hilton park and stand at the other end...I was only 12 so I didn't take notice of the railway but I remember the pit....so interesting....when did that pit close down then?
Replied: 4th Apr 2017 at 16:05

The pit was Parsonage and it closed in 1992,i used to sell programs when Leigh were at home,in the early 50s,and made more money than I did when I started work in a week.
Replied: 4th Apr 2017 at 18:50
My first game leigh 14 featherstone 28...probably 1963...think rod tickle played
Replied: 4th Apr 2017 at 19:56
The Leigh-Bolton Railway was one of the earliest. It was steam hauled BEFORE the Liverpool-Manchester.
Notwithstanding the name, it initially did not run from the two towns named, but from Chequerbent Collieries to the canal at Kenyon.
Replied: 4th Apr 2017 at 23:06
tts you can apologise to me sometime in the next millenium.
the bolton kenyon line shut to passengers early fifties not the tyldsley penningtron junction bit
Replied: 5th Apr 2017 at 19:21
One of the benches from Kenyan station is onleigh golf course...in culcheth
Replied: 6th Apr 2017 at 07:45

Replied: 6th Apr 2017 at 13:46
kenyon junction station and goods yard where so big its breath taking, you find it hard to know why railways fell from grace,apart from the usual idiots in the civil servic and succesive 50's and 60's governments.
they where the ones who thought railways where old hat and could be replaced by cheap ha ha shiny new roads.
Replied: 9th May 2017 at 23:17
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