Ashton-in-Makerfield railway station

Ashton-in-Makerfield
Location
Place	Haydock
Area	St Helens
Operations
Original company	Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
History
3 January 1900	Station opens
3 March 1952	Closure to regular traffic
After 5 July 1975	Closure to racecourse traffic
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z

Ashton-in-Makerfield railway station was a railway station serving that town. However, it was located in Haydock, formerly in the English county of Lancashire (although Ashton in Makerfield is now in Greater Manchester, the station site, in Haydock, is situated south of the town, in Merseyside). It was on the Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway from Lowton St Marys to the original St Helens Central railway station.

History

Opened by the Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway, as part of the Great Central Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed to passengers by the British Railways Board in 1952 although it remained open for Haydock Park race traffic until about 1975.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Haydock Park		Great Central Railway Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway		Haydock

The site today

The station site has now been landscaped as part of a business park.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 

• Ashton in Makerfield at Disused Stations