Closed Stations Journey quiz

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Farnworth & Bold

 

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Appleton

 

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Ann Street Halt

Note what the journey preamble said about "via Widnes South" that we now approach.

 

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Widnes South

 

[Ash Bridge]

Ditton Mill

 

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Ditton Junction

 

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Halebank

 

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Speke

 

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Church Road Garston

 

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Garston Dock

 

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Otterspool

 

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St James

 

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Liverpool Central High Level is the final closed station on this journey.

 

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Thank you for another good journey Paul. I await the next one.

 

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We next move to England for the next journey.....

This is number 624 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Manchester Central
It follows the line of the Fallowfield Loop Line
It then follows the line of the Hope Valley Line...link line only, no closed stations
It then follows the line of the Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway
It then follows the line of the LNWR/NSR Manchester to Stoke Line
It then follows the line of the NSR Biddulph Valley Line
It then follows the line of the NSR Stoke to Market Drayton Line
It then follows the line of the Nantwich and Market Drayton Railway
It then follows the line of the Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway
It then follows the line of the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway
It then follows the line of the Worcester, Bromyard and Leominster Railway
It then follows the line of the Cotswold Line
It then follows the line of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway...via Hereford Barton
It then follows the line of the Pontypool, Caerleon and Newport Railway
It then follows the line of the South Wales Railway
It then follows the line of the Vale of Glamorgan Line...via the Penarth Docks loop line
It then follows the line of the South Wales Railway
It then follows the line of the Swansea District Line
It then follows the line of the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company
It then follows the line of the LR&DC Ffairfach to Abergwili Branch Line
It then follows the line of the GWR Aberystwyth to Carmarthen Line
It then follows the line of the West Wales Line
It then follows the line of the Pembroke and Tenby Railway
The journey ends at the closed station of Llanion Halt

The first closed station on this journey is Manchester Central

 

[Ash Bridge]

Wilbraham Road

 

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Fallowfield

 

[Ash Bridge]

Levenshulme South

 

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Hyde Road

 

[Ash Bridge]

High Lane

 

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Middlewood High Level

 

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High Poynton

 

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Bollington

 

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North Rode

 

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Congleton Upper Junction

Now ready to access the NSR Biddulph Valley branch line.

 

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High Town?

 

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High Town?

Sorry, not so. I was somewhat taken aback by a station of that name.....where is it?

The station that we need was located by the bridge that spans Reades Lane was used regularly by both furnace-men and coal miners. Quick, in his excellent book, gives a closing date of 13th July 1925 for it, if this helps.

 

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Mossley Halt

 

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That is correct and Reades Lane as mentioned in my posting runs from the Hightown area of Congleton through the Mossley area to the south of it.

Biddulph

 

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Knypersley Halt