Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Volume 10 The North West

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A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain Vol.10 The North West

Hard cover with dust jacket

279 pages

Contents

I EARLY RAILWAYS IN THE NORTH WEST11Lancashire's place in railway history The Liverpool & Manchester Railway The Kenyon & Leigh Junction Railway The Warrington & Newton Railway The Wigan Branch Railway The St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway

II LIVERPOOL AND MERSEYSIDE27 First lines to Liverpool The Northern Approaches The Southern Approaches Overhead and Underground Main lines to Birkenhead Suburban Wirral Dock branches

III BETWEEN RIBBLE AND MERSEY56 The St Helens & Runcorn Gap Railway The St Helens Canal & Railway The growth of Widnes The route to Liverpool Northwards from St Helens The Widnes Railways take shape The Liverpool, St Helens & South Lancashire Railway Garston Docks New stations and closures Southport The West Lancashire The Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension

IV THE DISTRICTS OF WARRINGTON AND WIGAN80 The Warrington & Newton Railway The Grand Junction Railway The Birkenhead, Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway The St Helens Railway The Warrington & Altrincham Junction Railway Bank Quay Station . The Cheshire Lines at Warrington Irlam and Glazebrook Newton-le-Willows Leigh and Tyldesley Wigan The Lancashire & Yorkshire at Wigan The Lancashire Union Railway The Wigan Junction Railway

V GREATER MANCHESTER AND NORTH CHESHIREManchester's first railways The railway to Bolton The Manchester & Leeds Railway Lines to the South The Junction Problem Victoria Station The Manchester, South Junction & Altrincham Railway Sale and Altrincham Stockport Stockport to Crewe Macclesfield The Stockport, Disley & Whaley Bridge Railway Buxton The Midland Railway and Manchester Joint lines Knutsford and Northwich The Cheshire Lines Committee The Manchester South District and Central Station Exchange Station Midland Extensions LNW Improvements Station closures and the future

VI THROUGH THE PENNINESThe Manchester & Leeds Railway The Oldham Branch The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne & Manchester Railway Ashton-under-Lyne The Huddersfield & Manchester Railway The Oldham district Guide Bridge and Stalybridge Branches to East Lancashire Residential services and withdrawals

VII EAST LANCASHIRE AND BEYONDCotton and coal The railway to Rossendale Bury and the local railways Electrification at Bury Links with other lines Bacup To Accrington and Burnley Colne Skipton The Little North Western Railway The Settle and Carlisle line

VIII BOLTON, BLACKBURN AND BEYOND182Bolton The Bolton & Leigh Railway The Manchester, Bolton & Bury Railway The Bolton & Preston Railway Westhoughton, Chorley and Horwich The Lancashire Union Railway Blackburn and the East Lancashire The Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe & West Yorkshire The railway dispute at Blackburn Amalgamation and extension to Hellifield

IX PRESTON AND THE FYLDE200Preston First lines to Preston Preston's second railway North of Preston The Bolton & Preston Railway Developments at Preston The West Lancashire Railway Preston Station Fleetwood and the Fylde Blackpool and Lytham

X NORTHWARDS FROM PRESTON223Lancaster The Lancaster & Preston Junction Railway The Lancaster & Carlisle Railway The Garstang & Knot End Railway Railways and the Port of Lancaster The North Western Railway Morecambe Heysham Harbour

XI FROM THE SEVENTIES TOWARDS THE NINETIES238

XII RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT259

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS273

INDEX276

This volume deals with a region rich in railway history covering the counties of Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Lancashire, with adjacent districts of Cheshire, Derbyshire and North Yorkshire. North-west England was the birthplace of the railway as we know it today and the construction of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 150 years ago was a tremendous feat for its time. With the opening of the line its importance was immediately recognized, and the widespread building of railways in the region became a most spectacular feature of the industrial revolution, with marked effects upon the national economy, social and political life.

The new railways helped to expand the great Lancashire cotton and coal industries and led to the growth of new ports, residential areas around the many manufacturing centres and seaside resorts. They took the residents of inland towns to the seaside playgrounds of the Wirral and Lancashire coasts, and the industrial executives home in their club trains to Llandudno and Blackpool.

Gradually the small local railways merged to form the giants - the London & North Western, and Lancashire & Yorkshire Railways, with the curious joint concern, the Cheshire Lines, and outsiders such as the Midland and the Great Western struggling for a foothold in the area. Merseyside was the home of three pioneer electric railways, and today, despite a general decline in railway fortunes, there is a new resurgence of the modern railway, not only with the electrified inter-city routes but new underground lines to bring Liverpool right up to date in railway development. All this makes the area one of the most fascinating in Britain to railway enthusiasts, students of transport and social historians.

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