Westhoughton
1959 one-inch OS map extract showing the railway junctions around Westhoughton. Top right is Lostock Junction on the Bolton and Preston. Bottom left, just outside Hindley, is Crow Nest Junction. Today this is just the point where two double track lines meet but in 1959 three railways met here, one of which (from Atherton) was four tracks. The closed station top left is Dicconson Lane & Aspull on the line from Blackrod to Hindley. Below that is the 1889 link to Dobbs Brow Junction on the Atherton line. Completion of this effectively formed a L&YR bypass of Bolton. Bottom right is the LNWR line from Kenyon Junction through Chequerbent to Bolton Great Moor Street, closed to passengers by this time. The Chequerbent Incline was originally rope worked. In later years mining subsidence meant that in places steam hauled freights were negotiating gradients as steep as 1:18. Added by Mark Bartlett. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland http://maps.nls.uk/index.html
Location: Westhoughton
Original line: Liverpool and Bury Railway (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Photographer: National Library of Scotland
Contact photographer: National Library of Scotland
Date: 1959
Image number: 76558
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