Tyldesley Loopline was part of the London and North Western Railway's Manchester and Wigan Railway line from Eccles to the junction west of Tyldesley...
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11 September 1861 and the line opened to traffic on 1 September 1864. The Tyldesley Loopline closed on 3 May 1969 as a result of the Beeching Axe. In 1900, a Bill...
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the Manchester Ship Canal to the Trafford Centre. Re-opening the Tyldesley Loopline from Eccles to Little Hulton via Walkden with Metrolink services....
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Bolton and Leigh Railway, closed in 1954. Leigh and Tyldesley stations on the Tyldesley Loopline were closed in 1969. The Leeds and Liverpool and Bridgewater...
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destroyed the wooden station building, which has never been rebuilt. The Tyldesley Loopline was opened by the London and North Western Railway on 1 September...
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Gin Pit Colliery (category Tyldesley)
of the Manchester Coalfield and was situated to the south of the Tyldesley Loopline. Gin Pit's name suggests it, or a predecessor, had horse driven winding...
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line in the 1960s was from Jackson's sidings in Tyldesley. Passenger traffic from the Tyldesley Loopline closed following the Beeching cuts on 5 May 1969...
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though it ran at a small profit. The Tyldesley Loopline closed following the Beeching Axe on 5 May 1969 and Tyldesley and all other stations along the line...
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Wigan Railway, which connected Eccles with Wigan and the Tyldesley Loopline which connected Tyldesley, Leigh and Kenyon Junction. Other stations on the line...
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the Ellenbrook area of Worsley, Greater Manchester, England on the Tyldesley Loopline and Manchester and Wigan line. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger...
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Western Railway (LNWR) opened a line from Eccles to Wigan via Tyldesley and the Tyldesley Loopline via Leigh to Kenyon Junction in 1864, providing the impetus...
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Green and a mineral railway system linked Gin Pit Colliery to the Tyldesley Loopline at Jackson's sidings and Bedford Colliery and Speakman's Sidings....
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1914. The station closed in 1969. Leigh's railway station was on the Tyldesley Loopline, which was opened on 1 September 1864 by the London & North Western...
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opened in 1864 to serve the town of Worsley in Greater Manchester. The Tyldesley Loopline closed in 1969 as a result of the Beeching Axe. Worsley Station opened...
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towns in Britain without a railway station after the closure of the Tyldesley Loopline in 1969, suffered from poor transport connections to neighbouring...
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additional branch line to Bolton was opened in 1870, branching from the Tyldesley Loopline line at Roe Green. A railway station at Monton Green was opened in...
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part of Bedford, south of the London and North Western Railway's Tyldesley Loopline in about 1874. Speakman's father owned Priestners, Bankfield, and...
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that, the Bolton and Leigh Railway; closed 2 January 1961 and the Tyldesley Loopline; closed 5 May 1969) Glazebury and Bury Lane (closed 7 July 1958) Flow...
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St George's Colliery (category Tyldesley)
Edmund Buckley. The colliery was situated to the south of Tyldesley Station on the Tyldesley Loopline and named after St George's Church. The colliery's two...
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London and North Western Railway opened the Tyldesley Loopline from Manchester via Eccles and Tyldesley to Kenyon Junction on the Liverpool to Manchester...
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New Manchester (category Tyldesley)
Salford. The route of the Roman road from Manchester to Wigan and the Tyldesley Loopline passed south of the village. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's...
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Kenyon ended in March 1954 and traffic from Leigh ended when the Tyldesley Loopline was closed in 1969. Nine of the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway...
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of the London and North Western Railway at the junction with the Tyldesley Loopline of the same railway. A grammar school was established in Pennington...
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Peelwood Colliery (category Tyldesley)
Cleworth Hall, by a mineral railway which had exchange sidings with the Tyldesley Loopline. After 1888 an exchange siding was constructed next to the Lancashire...
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Darren Ward and Bob Clarke. Ellenbrook had a station on the former Tyldesley Loopline which ran between Eccles and Leigh. The trackbed is now occupied by...
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Tyldesley and the Tyldesley Loopline via Leigh to Kenyon Junction in 1864 providing the impetus for the exploitation of coal seams in Tyldesley and Greens Sidings...
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continuing westward to stations at Ellenbrook and Tyldesley. After Tyldesley the line split, the Tyldesley Loopline continued to Kenyon Junction while the Wigan...
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railway station in Monton called Monton Green, which was part of the Tyldesley Loopline, running from Eccles through Worsley and Roe Green to Leigh. The station...
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1883. The London and North Western Railway's Tyldesley Loopline from Eccles to the junction west of Tyldesley station continued south west to Leigh, Pennington...
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to mainline railways at Ellenbrook and Sandersons Sidings on the Tyldesley Loopline, at Astley Green sidings on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,...
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