Tyldesley
The site of the station in 2009
General information
Location	Tyldesley,Wigan England
Coordinates	53°30′45″N2°28′06″W / 53.5124°N 2.4684°W /53.5124; -2.4684
Platforms	3
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 September 1864	Station opens
5 May 1969	Station closes

v t e Manchester to Wigan Line
Legend
West Coast Main Line toPreston Wigan North Western toLiverpool Lime Street viaSt Helens toStandish viaWhelley Loop West Coast Main Line Platt Bridge toWarrington Bank Quay   toWigan Central andWhelley Loop Bickershaw & Abram toGlazebrook viaLowton St Mary's Plank Lane   toKenyon Junction Hindley Green viaPennington   Atherleigh toKenyon Junction viaPennington toBolton Great Moor Street viaChequerbent Leigh Howe Bridge Tyldesley Junction Tyldesley Ellenbrook toBolton Great Moor Street viaWalkden Low Level toKenyon Junction via Chat Moss Worsley Patricroft Monton Green toClifton Junction Eccles Junction Eccles toManchester Exchange orManchester Victoria

v t e Tyldesley Loopline
Legend
London & North Western Rly toLiverpool Lime Street West Coast Main Line toWarrington Bank Quay Newton-le-Willows Lowton Parkside West Coast Main Line toWigan Kenyon Junction Glazebury and Bury Lane Pennington toWigan viaPlank Lane Flow Moss toBolton viaChequerbent Bridgewater Canal Astley Leigh toWigan viaHindley Green Lamb's Cottage Tyldesley Ellenbrook Barton Moss toBolton viaWalkden Low Level Worsley Patricroft Monton Green toBury viaClifton Hall Tunnel Eccles Junction Eccles London & North Western Rly toManchester Victoria

Tyldesley railway station is a closed railway station inGreater Manchester. It was situated within thehistoric county ofLancashire.

Coal mining was the chief motivation for building a railway in the area and the railway's supporters included many local colliery owners and industrialists.^[1] TheLondon and North Western Railway obtained an Act of Parliament to build a line throughTyldesley in 1861 and thefirst sod was cut by theEarl of Ellesmere atWorsley in the September. At that time the Tyldesley had the largest population of all thetownships in the old Leigh parish and was destined to become the lin‌e's "premier station".^[2]

At a junction to the west of Tyldesley station, the line toWigan headed north west and the branch toBedford Leigh,Bradshaw Leach andKenyon Junction headed south west.

The ceremonial opening of the line took place on 24 August 1864.^[2] A special train of 18 coaches decorated with flags set off fromHunt's Bank in Manchester before stopping atEccles,Worsley andEllenbrook. The streets of Tyldesley were decorated with flags and banners and the population crowded to greet the train which left for Bradshaw Leach. The train returned to Tyldesley and set out for Wigan viaChowbent, Hindley and Platt Bridge before once again returning to Tyldesley. Here the railway directors and their guests joined a procession around the town led by a band, members of local friendly societies and more than 2,000 children.^[3]

Tyldesley station, in common with other stations on theManchester to Wigan Line, was opened to the public on 1 September 1864.^[4]

The station joined theLondon Midland and Scottish Railway during thegrouping in 1923. It passed to theLondon Midland Region of British Railways onnationalisation in 1948. The station closed on 5 May 1969.

Tyldesley station was of timber construction, it had a booking office and first and second class waiting rooms. It had three through platforms, each was 300 feet long and protected by glass canopies. Two platforms were on an island platform reached by a subway. A goods station was built to the east.^[4]

Collieries linked to the railway includeAstley and Tyldesley Collieries'St George's,Nook andGin Pit Collieries in Tyldesley connected at Jackson's sidings to the west of the station and the Shakerley, Green'sTyldesley Coal Company and Ramsden'sShakerley Collieries had connections at sidings approximately one mile to the east of Tyldesley station.^[5]

My Father had been the Station Master that covered the stations on the line. The Winters of 1963 and 64 were so severe the Pennines froze 6 feet deep. Work stopped on the construction of the M62 motorway. In 1964 the cost of putting a railway bridge over the Motorway was £500,000. Harold Wilson the Prime Minister decided to close the line even though it ran at a small profit.

TheTyldesley Loopline closed following theBeeching Axe on 5 May 1969 and Tyldesley and all other stations along the line were closed.^[6]

The former trackbed within theMetropolitan Borough of Wigan was reserved in the Unitary Development Plan in case the rail route could be reinstated. The cutting in Tyldesley was filled in and the line of the railway was a footpath. The proposal for the Leigh-Tyldesley area, aguided bus^[7] along the former trackbed from Leigh to theA580 East Lancashire Road atEllenbrook was approved in 2005. Construction of theLeigh-Salford-Manchester Bus Rapid Transit route through the site of the station was completed and opened in April 2016^[8]

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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
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1969
• History of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
• Beeching closures in England
• Tyldesley

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