Page Field railway station

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I have just come across an extremely old hand-drawn line map of the area between Gathurst railway station and Wigan Wallgate railway that shows "Page Field stn" roughly equidistant from them.

Can anyone shed any light on this. Was it a goods station?

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Can only find this page on Google search.
Any more info like the year might help others maybe?

 

[John Webb]

Neither the Ian Allan "Pre-grouping Atlas and Gazetteer" nor the "Complete British Railway Maps and Gazetteer from 1830-1981" by C J Wignall (OPC) show any suggestion of this station, passenger or goods. Could it be one someone was thinking of building a station there or something?

 

[Bevan Price]

Pagefield Works (Walker Brothers), engineering manufacturer for coal mining industry, etc., but also built stationary steam engines, and a few steam locos. For more details, see "The Industrial Railways of the Wigan Coalfield", Part 2, by Townley, Smith & Peden.

Located on Wigan - Southport line a short distance from Wigan Wallgate. Had a siding, but no passenger station.

 

[kelv]

I think pagefield is where the bus station is now & isn't there a pub called 'The Famous Pagefield'

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I have now approached a senior member of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society to see if the society have any records of the query raised.
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Pagefield Works (Walker Brothers), engineering manufacturer for coal mining industry, etc., but also built stationary steam engines, and a few steam locos. For more details, see "The Industrial Railways of the Wigan Coalfield", Part 2, by Townley, Smith & Peden. Located on Wigan - Southport line a short distance from Wigan Wallgate. Had a siding, but no passenger station.

I have now had a reply from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Society which confirms all that you say above. It makes me now think that this particular hand-drawn aged map was used by someone who may have used this information at one time, but this was all part of a "job-lot" of railway ephemera that I bought at auction in the mid-1960's when I first began my railway archive.