General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I forgot about that, I had read somewhere, that they were going to run the electric services to Manchester from Wigan Northwest, by bringing Platform Two back into operation, and extending both of the bay platforms.

Originally they were going to electrify the line into Wallgate, from Liverpool, using the live third rail type of electrification, Wigan Wallgate is the terminus station of the Merseyrail Northern Line, that plan was one of the reasons why the line from Liverpool Exchange to Wigan escaped closure in the early 1970s
A new line and station for Skelmersdale is in development at the moment, connecting to the Wigan to Kirby line, in between Upholland and Rainford, and it looks likely that it will be an electrified line, so could the Wigan Wallgate lines to Liverpool and Southport, be electrified using the live third rail system ? And there are classes of trains which can run on both the 1500dc third rail system, and the 25k electrified overhead line system, they can change from one system to the other whilst the train is moving, such trains are in use in London, so such a train could come from Liverpool or Southport on the live third rail system, and then carry on from Wallgate Station, and on to the Manchester or WCML, raising its third rail shoo's, and then raising its pantograph, to connect to the overhead electrified line system