Closed Stations Journey quiz

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Highclere

 

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Burghclere

 

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Litchfield

 

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Whitchurch (DN&S)

 

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Barton Stacey

 

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Sutton Scotney

 

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Worthy Down

 

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Kings Worthy....just one more now to name

 

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Winchester Chesil

 

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We now move to North West England for the next journey...

This quiz is number 119 so far...

The journey starts at the closed station of Bolton Great Moor Street
It follows the line of the Bolton and Leigh Railway
It then follows the line of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway
It then follows the line of the Manchester to Leeds Railway
It then follows the line of the East Lancashire Railway
It then follows the line of the Liverpool to Bury Railway
It then follows the line of the Ribble Valley line
It then follows the line of the East Lancashire line...Using the Padiham loop line
It then follows the line of the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway
It then follows the line of the GNR Keighley to Queensbury line
It then follows the line of the Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway
It then follows the line of the LYR Halifax to Sowerby Bridge line
It then follows the line of the Rishworth branch line.
The journey ends at the closed station of Rishworth

The first closed station on this journey is Bolton Great Moor Street

 

[Welshman]

Bolton Crook St

 

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Rumworth and Daubhill

 

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Chequerbent

 

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Atherton Bag Lane

 

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Atherleigh

 

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West Leigh

 

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Bradshaw Leach

 

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Bradshaw Leach

Well noted...this station did not have its name changed to the better known one of Pennington until 1877.

Kenyon Junction

 

[Welshman]

Glazebury & Bury Lane

 

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Astley

 

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Barton Moss

 

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Flow Moss Cottage was the next station towards Manchester after Astley

NOTE : both the Barton Moss stations can be entered on this quiz when the time comes for them to be entered.

 

[Welshman]

Flow Moss Cottage was the next station towards Manchester after Astley

NOTE : both the Barton Moss stations can be entered on this quiz when the time comes for them to be entered.

I thought "Flow Moss Cottage" was before Astley.

Wasn't there a "Lambs Cottage" somewhere round here, too?

Barton Moss [2nd site]

 

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There was also a Reids Farm station - which may or not be an alternative name for one of the Barton Mosses

Weaste if I'm still heading in the right direction

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Seedley
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There was also a Reids Farm station - which may or not be an alternative name for one of the Barton Mosses

It was the name for the Barton Moss Ist station
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Wasn't there a "Lambs Cottage" somewhere round here, too?

This was situated AFTER Flow Moss Cottage in the Manchester-bound direction.
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I thought "Flow Moss Cottage" was before Astley.

Not so. Flow Moss Cottage was situated in-between Astley and Lambs Cottage.

 

[Welshman]

Thank you for clarifying the above stations.

Cross Lane

 

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Ordsall Lane

 

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Manchester Exchange

 

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Miles Platting

 

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Newton Heath