Closed Stations Journey quiz

[Calthrop]

Warrington (First station)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Winwick Quay (closed 1840)

Remember that we are heading in a northbound direction.

 

[Calthrop]

Vulcan Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Parkside (1st station)

 

[Calthrop]

Lowton

 

[Ash Bridge]

Haydock Racecourse

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Golborne

 

[Ash Bridge]

Bamfurlong

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Boar's Head

 

[Ash Bridge]

Standish

 

[Whistler40145]

Coppull

 

[Ash Bridge]

Euxton (L&NW)

 

[Calthrop]

Farington

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Farington

I think that the junction leading to the next leg of this journey, Blackburn and Preston Railway, came before Farington was reached, so the first closed station on that line would be.....

Todd Lane Junction

 

[Calthrop]

Rather diffidently -- reversal at Todd Lane Junction -- next closed one, Gregson Lane Halt

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hoghton

 

[Calthrop]

Hoghton Tower

 

[Ash Bridge]

Rishton (1st station)

 

[Calthrop]

Baxenden

 

[Ash Bridge]

Haslingden

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Helmshore

 

[Calthrop]

Broadfield

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Broadfield

In the Bury area, we first would have taken the chord from the still open heritage station of Bury Bolton Street that accessed to reach the closed station of....

Bury Knowsley Street

That station was the previous closed station before Broadfield was reached.

 

[Calthrop]

I hate south Lancashire ! (just kidding). Next (?) Heywood

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Next (?) Heywood

We have never made a decision about that station above as the new East Lancashire Railway heritage station was sited further along the line a little nearer in the Castleton direction.

Middleton Junction

 

[Ash Bridge]

Newton Heath

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Miles Platting

 

[Ash Bridge]

Manchester Exchange

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ordsall Lane

 

[Whistler40145]

Seedley