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Kenyon Junction
Kenyon Junction
General information
Location	Culcheth, Warrington; England
Coordinates	53°27′49″N 2°32′19″W / 53.4637°N 2.5387°W
Grid reference	SJ642964
Platforms	4
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
15 September 1830	Opened as Bolton Junction
June 1843	Renamed Kenyon Junction
2 January 1961	Station closed to passengers
1 August 1963	Station closed completely

LNWR lines to Bolton

Legend

Deansgate Goods

Bolton

Crook Street Goods

Bolton

Great Moor Street

Original alignment

shown in grey

Rumworth and Daubhill

Daubhill (

original

and incline

)

Plodder Lane Shed

Plodder Lane

Chequerbent

Chequerbent (

original

and incline

)

Little Hulton

Manchester–Southport line (LYR)

to Wigan Wallgate

Howe Bridge

Manchester & Wigan Rly

to Wigan North Western

Tyldesley Loopline

Bolton and Leigh Railway

Kenyon & Leigh Junction Rly

Worsley

Leeds & Liverpool Canal

Bridgewater Canal

Monton Green

Pennington junctions

to Bury

Pennington

Eccles

East Lancashire Road

Liverpool–Manchester lines

Kenyon Junction

Bridgewater Canal

Liverpool–Manchester lines

Some stations omitted in dotted sections

Tyldesley Loopline

Legend

London & North Western Rly

to Liverpool Lime Street

West Coast Main Line

to Warrington Bank Quay

Newton-le-Willows

Lowton

Parkside

West Coast Main Line

to Wigan

Kenyon Junction

Glazebury and

Bury Lane

Pennington

to Wigan

via Plank Lane

Flow Moss

to Bolton

via Chequerbent

Bridgewater Canal

Astley

Leigh

to Wigan

via Hindley Green

to Bolton

via Walkden Low Level

Worsley

Patricroft

Monton Green

to Bury

via Clifton Hall Tunnel

Eccles Junction

Eccles

London & North Western Rly

to Manchester Victoria

Kenyon Junction was a railway station at Kenyon near Culcheth in Warrington, England. The station was built at the junction of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway.^[4]^[5] It was situated in the historic county of Lancashire. The station opened in 1830 as Bolton Junction and closed to passengers on 2 January 1961 before closing completely on 1 August 1963.^[6] The junction fell out of use when the line serving Leigh was closed in 1969.^[7]

History

The station was opened on 15 September 1830 as part of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.^[6] It was originally named Bolton Junction before being renamed Kenyon Junction in June 1843.^[3]

The early station was criticised for poor facilities and missed connections and was reconstructed in 1883.^[8] The London and North Western Railway's Tyldesley Loopline from Eccles to the junction west of Tyldesley station continued south west to Leigh, Pennington and Kenyon Junction opened in 1864.^[9]^[10]

The original engine shed closed before 1870. Large sidings accommodated goods and coal traffic from Bag Lane, Westleigh, Bickershaw and Abram Collieries and Jacksons and Speakmans Sidings in Bedford, Greater Manchester, Leigh. There were two signal boxes.^[8]^[11] All stations on the line to Bolton closed in 1954.^[12] The stationmaster's house remains in occupation, complete with its own railway bridge to cross the Manchester to Liverpool line, but is not visible from the road.

Potential reopening

In 2001 a proposal to rebuild Kenyon Junction station, which met with much local opposition, was abandoned following the rejection of plans to build a leisure complex in Leigh which the rebuilt station would have served.^[7] Locals have lobbied to rebuild the station and build a link to Leigh.^[13]

In March 2019, Andy Burnham backed plans to reopen the station as a short-term solution to link Leigh to the rail network.^[14] The plans are also backed by the Leigh MP James Grundy.

References

Citations

^ Fields, Gilbert & Knight 1980, Photos 43 & 48.
^ James 2004, p. 11.
^ ^a ^b ^c Butt 1995, pp. 38 & 130.
^ Sweeney 1996, p. 8.
^ Smith & Turner 2012, Map 45.
^ ^a ^b Butt 1995, p. 38.
^ ^a ^b Kenyon Junction Station, subbrit.org.uk, retrieved 10 September 2010
^ ^a ^b Sweeney 1996, p. 61.
^ Sweeney 1996, p. 71.
^ Sweeney 2015, pp. 172–180.
^ Holland 2001, p. 91.
^ Sweeney 1996, p. 11.
^ http://www.gmpte.com/upload/library/leighsoc.pdf p. 117 Archived 18 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Greater Manchester mayor determined to deliver train station for Leigh".

Bibliography

Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
Fields, N; Gilbert, A C; Knight, N R (1980), Liverpool to Manchester into the Second Century, Manchester Transport Museum Society, ISBN 978-0-900857-19-5
Holland, Bert (2001), Plodder Lane for Farnworth, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-6-5
James, David (2004), Lancashire's Lost Railways, Stenlake Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84033-288-9
Smith, Paul; Turner, Keith (2012), Railway Atlas Then and Now, Ian Allan Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7110-3695-6
Sweeney, D.J. (1996), A Lancashire Triangle Part One, Triangle Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9529333-0-4
Sweeney, Dennis (2015), A Lancashire Triangle Revisited, Triangle Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9550030-7-3

External links

The station's history Disused Stations UK
The station on a 1948 OS Map npe maps
The station on an 1849 OS map National Library of Scotland
The station on an 1892 series OS map overlay National Library of Scotland
The line, stations and mileages railwaycodes

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Parkside Line open, station closed		London and North Western Railway		Pennington Line and station closed
Parkside Line open, station closed		London and North Western Railway		Glazebury and Bury Lane Line open, station closed