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Wigan Junction Railway

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.

Glazebrook to Wigan

Culcheth Linear Park runs along the old GCR Wigan Central branch from the point where it crossed the L&MR near Kenyon Junction, down through Culcheth ...
Mark Bartlett 22/02/2021

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Culcheth

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A view of the site of Culcheth station, closed with the Wigan Central branch from Glazebrook in 1964. In the early 1970s the council purchased a one ...
Mark Bartlett 22/02/2021

Looking north-west under Wigshaw Lane road bridge to the site of Culcheth station on the former Great Central Railway line from Glazebrook Jct to ...
John McIntyre 24/01/2019

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Lowton St Marys

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Liverpool, St Helens, and South Lancashire Railway

Lowton St Marys was a station on the GCR line to Wigan, and the junction for the branch to St Helens Central through Ashton-in-Makerfield. The branch ...
Mark Bartlett 08/02/2023

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West Leigh and Bedford

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Bickershaw and Abram

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Strangeways East Junction

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Hindley South

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Strangeways West Junction

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Central Wagon Company

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Lower Ince

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Just down the hill from the operational Ince station is the site of Lower Ince. This was on the GCR Wigan Central line and closed in 1964. The two ...
Mark Bartlett 23/02/2022

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Wigan Darlington Street

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Wigan Central

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A railway rather than a canal picture. Although Lock 83 in the Wigan flight can be seen, the land in the foreground was occupied by the girder bridge ...
Mark Bartlett 12/10/2022

A 1907 OS map extract of central Wigan, showing the three stations in use at that time. Wallgate and North Western, cheek by jowl as it were, and the ...
National Library of Scotland //1907

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