Haydock railway station

Haydock
Location
Place Haydock
Area St Helens
Coordinates 53°27′57″N 2°40′19″W / 53.465750°N 2.671916°W / 53.465750; -2.671916Coordinates: 53°27′57″N 2°40′19″W / 53.465750°N 2.671916°W / 53.465750; -2.671916
Grid reference SJ555967
Operations
Original company Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping Great Central Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms 2[1][2][3]
History
1 July 1895[4] Station opened for goods
3 January 1900[5] Station opened for passengers
1930-38 Down platform closed
1944 Closed for goods[6]
3 March 1952[7] Station closed completely[8]
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Haydock railway station served the village of Haydock, formerly in Lancashire, now in Merseyside), England.[9]

The station was on the Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway line from Lowton St Mary's to the original St Helens Central railway station where it was crossed by what is now the A599 in the centre of the village.[10][11]

East of the station was the 99 yards (91 m) Haydock Colliery Tunnel, the only tunnel on the line. It was built at the railway's expense using the 'cut and cover' method.[12] Its sole purpose was to burrow beneath Haydock Colliery's tracks.

History

Opened by the Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway, as part of the Great Central Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line and station passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, being transferred to the London Midland Region later that year.

The line through the station was originally double track and the station had two platforms. In the 1930s the down (St Helens-bound) track was changed into a long siding and all trains to and from St Helens used the up line. The station's down side shelter and signs were removed.[13]

Services

In 1922 five "down" (towards St Helens) trains called at the station, Mondays to Saturdays. These called at all stations from Manchester Central to St Helens via Glazebrook and Culcheth. The "up" service was similar.[14]

By 1948 four trains plied between St Helens Central and Manchester Central, calling at all stations, Monday to Friday, reduced to three on Saturdays. [15]

A fuller selection of public and working timetables has now been published. Among other things this suggests that Sunday services ran until 1914, but had ceased by 1922 never to return.[16]

Closure

The station was closed to passenger traffic by the British Railways Board in 1952, though goods traffic through to St Helens lingered on until 1965, when the tracks west of Ashton-in-Makerfield were abandoned. A short stretch from Ashton through the Haydock station site to a new Shell distribution depot was reinstated in 1968. This ceased being rail-served in 1983,[17] whereafter the line was cut back to Lowton Metals' scrapyard at Ashton.[18] Tracks were eventually lifted.

The site today

By 2003 modern housing had completely obliterated the station site.[19]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Ashton-in-Makerfield
Line and station closed		   Great Central Railway
Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway		   St Helens Central (GCR)
Line and station closed

References

  1. ↑ Dow 1965, p. 11
  2. ↑ Pixton 1996, p. 124
  3. ↑ Shannon & Hillmer 2003, p. 104
  4. ↑ Dow 1965, p. 10
  5. ↑ Dow 1965, pp. 9-12
  6. ↑ Sweeney 2014, p. 38
  7. ↑ Pixton 1996, p. 125
  8. ↑ The station via Disused Stations UK
  9. ↑ The station on a 1948 OS Map via npe Maps
  10. ↑ Smith & Turner 2012, Map 45
  11. ↑ Station and line HOB3 via railwaycodes
  12. ↑ Sweeney 2014, pp. 46-47
  13. ↑ Sweeney 2014, pp. 39 & 40
  14. ↑ Bradshaw 1922, pp. 714-5
  15. ↑ The station via Disused Stations UK
  16. ↑ Sweeney 2014, pp. 105–115
  17. ↑ Sweeney 2014, p. 59,
  18. ↑ Shannon & Hillmer 2003, p. 104
  19. ↑ Shannon & Hillmer 2003, p. 104

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