Bolton Crook Street railway station

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Bolton, Crook Street
Location
Place Bolton, Greater Manchester
Area Bolton
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Grid reference SD716088
Operations
Original company Bolton and Leigh Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
History
1 August 1871 Opened as temporary terminus
28 September 1874 Closed to passengers[1]
1 October 1967 Closed for freight
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Bolton Crook Street passenger station was a purely temporary facility within the Bolton Crook Street goods yard, devised by the LNWR for use while their nearby Great Moor St station was demolished and rebuilt. It was used as such from August 1871 to September 1874, after which it reverted to use solely for goods.

The temporary passenger station's exact location within the goods yard is believed to be the goods shed on the eastern side of Chandos Street.[2]

Sources differ on whether Great Moor St station reopened in September 1874[3] or April 1875.[4] The original service to Kenyon Junction was provided continuously from 1831 to 1954, but the new, additional service to Manchester via Roe Green did not start until 1 April 1875, when it ran from Great Moor Street. It is therefore possible that Crook St handed the Kenyon Junction traffic to the new Great Moor Street station in 1874.

Accident

On 16 March 1918 a goods train from Little Hulton "ran away" on the falling gradients towards Bolton. An alert signalman diverted it into Crook Street depot where it crashed through buffer stops, crossed cobbled land, crashed through a boundary wall and into the cellar of a house on Crook Street. The crew had jumped clear and, remarkably, no-one was hurt.[5]

Closure

After a long period of decline Crook Street goods depot was finally closed to all traffic on 1 October 1967.[6]

The site has been redeveloped in the years since and by 2015 no trace of its railway origins could be seen.

References

  1. ↑ Holland 2001, p. 19
  2. ↑ Holland 2001, p. 19
  3. ↑ Holland 2001, p. 19
  4. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 38
  5. ↑ Dart 2010, p. 72.
  6. ↑ Holland 2001, p. 151

Sources

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External links

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Terminus   London and North Western Railway
Bolton and Leigh Railway		   Daubhill
Line and station closed
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