Windsor Bridge to Hindley Line (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)

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Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.




Crow Nest Junction

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Liverpool and Bury Railway (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Hindley and Blackrod Branch (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
A 156/150 combination takes the Westhoughton and Bolton line at Crow Nest Junction. The tree to the left of the train marks the point where the branch ...
Mark Bartlett 02/05/2021
A pair of Sprinters, working from Kirby to Manchester Victoria, approach Crow Nest Junction soon after departing Hindley, whose platforms can be seen ...
Mark Bartlett 27/04/2021
Just to the east of Crow Nest Junction, on the line to Westhoughton and Lostock Junction, this bridge has been substantially rebuilt with a ...
Mark Bartlett 27/04/2021
158752 takes the Atherton line towards Salford, at the much simplified Crow Nest Junction, with a Wigan to Leeds service in April 2021. I have a ...
Mark Bartlett 27/04/2021
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Dobbs Brow Junction

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Dobbs Brow and Red Moss Improvements (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
150116 heads for Kirby at Dobbs Brow on 27th April 2021. This is a rather non-descript location at present but, prior to 1968, there were four tracks ...
Mark Bartlett 27/04/2021
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Daisy Hill

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158870 and 150105 arrive at Daisy Hill with a Kirkby to Blackburn service on 8 January 2022. ...
John McIntyre 08/01/2022
Unlike nearby Atherton and Walkden stations, Daisy Hill has lost the L&YR canopy from its island platform. The street level booking office is staffed ...
Mark Bartlett 25/04/2015
Daisy Hill is on the former four track direct line from Wigan to Manchester but trees now grow where the fast lines were. In L&YR days expresses from ...
Mark Bartlett 25/04/2015
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Hag Fold

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158756 arrives at Hag Fold with a Leeds to Wigan North Western service on 08 January 2022. Hag Fold is a fairly recent station having been constructed ...
John McIntyre 08/01/2022
At track level Hag Fold is just one of a number of unremarkable stations built in Greater Manchester during the 1980s and 1990s. However, the road ...
Mark Bartlett 25/04/2015
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Atherton

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Northern 142011 calls at Atherton, with a service from Manchester to Southport, on 30th September 2008. The semaphores here were to last another five ...
John McIntyre 28/09/2008
View towards Wigan along the island platform at Atherton as 150135 leaves for Southport in September 2008. The booking office and connecting ...
Mark Bartlett 30/09/2008
Like most of the other original L&Y stations on this line Atherton retains the overall roof on its island platform (and semaphore signals until 2013). ...
Mark Bartlett 30/09/2008
156461 is Manchester bound at Atherton, viewed from the road overbridge in September 2008. The staircase leading to the booking office can also be ...
John McIntyre 30/09/2008
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Walkden

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Walkden, with trains between Leeds and Wigan calling on 12 March 2022. On the left a pair of 2 car Class 158s departs towards Wigan North Western ...
John McIntyre 12/03/2022
150114 leaves Walkden with a service for Kirkby from Manchester Victoria on 19th April 2021. The solum for the old fast lines is to the left of the ...
Mark Bartlett 19/04/2021
Walkden station canopy restored. ...
Network Rail /06/2021
The entrance to Walkden station in April 2021. This leads via two flights of stairs to the island platform with its surviving L&YR canopy. The ticket ...
Mark Bartlett 19/04/2021
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Walkden Watertroughs

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Moorside

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Moorside station, looking east, with a Blackburn to Kirkby service looking for customers on 20 January 2022. ...
John McIntyre 20/01/2022
158753 passes through Moorside (formerly Moorside and Wardley) on a Wigan Wallgate to Leeds service on 15th May 2021. The old fast lines, removed in ...
Mark Bartlett 15/05/2021
A platform scene at Moorside, looking back towards the street level ticket office, in May 2021. This was damaged in a malicious fire in 2020 and the ...
Mark Bartlett 15/05/2021
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Swinton [L and Y]

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158870 and 150105 depart at Swinton with a Kirkby to Blackburn service on 8 January 2022. ...
John McIntyre 08/01/2022
158758 leaves Swinton, heading for Wigan with a service from Leeds, on 19th July 2021. To the left of the train the trackbed of the former goods lines ...
Mark Bartlett 19/07/2021
158758, on a Leeds to Wigan (via the Calder Valley) service, calls at Swinton on 19th July 2021. The L&YR island platform canopy here is still in very ...
Mark Bartlett 19/07/2021
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Pendlebury

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This little green space alongside the main road in Pendlebury is actually the site of the station building. There is little to show what was here but ...
Mark Bartlett 19/07/2021
A Sprinter from Kirkby emerges from Pendlebury Tunnel to run through the site of the old Pendlebury station in July 2021. There was actually another ...
Mark Bartlett 19/07/2021
Pendlebury station, on the Salford to Wigan direct route through Atherton, closed in 1960 but the rails still curve round the spot where the island ...
Mark Bartlett 30/06/2021
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Irlams o' th' Height

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158754, on a Northern service from Wigan North Western to Leeds on 19th July 2021, passes through the site of long closed Irlams o' th' Height station ...
Mark Bartlett 19/07/2021
Irlams o' th' Height station only lasted from 1901 to 1956, as it was well away from the village centre, although it was close to Agecroft engine ...
Mark Bartlett 19/07/2021
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Agecroft Junction

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Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway





Brindle Heath Junction

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Pendleton [2nd]

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This is the view towards Manchester, from the bridge above the disused platforms at Pendleton Broad Street, on 5th September 2021. This direct line ...
Mark Bartlett 05/09/2021
Pendleton Broad Street had four platforms, and was a busy station for many years, but passenger numbers reduced dramatically after Salford Crescent ...
Mark Bartlett 05/09/2021
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Salford West Junction

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Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway





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