29/03/2003 | Lancashire Union Railway Pacer 142043 on a service from Liverpool to Wigan is partly derailed at Carr Mill by a sleeper placed on the line. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
The station opened on the Whelley Loop, primarily constructed as a goods line to avoid Wigan, on 1st January 1872. Three trains ran daily from here to Liverpool when most customers probably just wanted to go into Wigan but even so it had a remarkably short life closing on 1st March 1872 after just two months. The other station on the loop, Whelley, had a similarly short existence. ...
More detailsThe station opened on the Whelley Loop, primarily constructed as a goods line to avoid Wigan, on 1st January 1872. Three trains ran daily from here to Liverpool when most customers probably just wanted to go into Wigan but even so it had a remarkably short life closing on 1st March 1872 after just two months. The other station on the loop, Hindley and Amberswood, had a similarly short existence. ...
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