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Platt Bridge railway station is a closed railway station in thePlatt Bridge area ofWigan, England, where the line bridged Liverpool Road (the A58).

Platt Bridge was in thehistoric county ofLancashire.

The station was opened by theLondon and North Western Railway on 1 September 1864, in common with other stations on theManchester to Wigan Line.

The station joined theLondon Midland and Scottish Railway during theGrouping in 1923 and passed to theLondon Midland Region of British Railways onnationalisation in 1948.

The station closed on 1 May 1961.^[1]

Coal deposits were the chief motivation for building a railway in the area and the railway's supporters included many local colliery owners and industrialists.^[2]

Notes

• 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.
• Sweeney, D. J. (1996),A Lancashire Triangle Part One, Triangle Publishing,ISBN 0-9529333-0-6

• The station on a 1948 OS map vianpe maps
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• Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
• Former London and North Western Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1864
• History of Wigan
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1961

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