Parkside railway station (Merseyside)

Parkside
General information
Location	Wigan
Platforms	2
History
Original company	Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
15 September 1830	Station opened
1839	Station closed to passengers
1839	Replacement station opened to the east
1 May 1878	Station closed completely

Tyldesley Loopline
London & North Western Rly to Liverpool Lime Street West Coast Main Line to Warrington Bank Quay Newton-le-Willows Lowton Parkside West Coast Main Line to Wigan Kenyon Junction Glazebury and Bury Lane Pennington to Wigan via Plank Lane Flow Moss to Bolton via Chequerbent Bridgewater Canal Astley Leigh to Wigan via Hindley Green Lamb's Cottage Tyldesley Ellenbrook Barton Moss to Bolton via Walkden Low Level Worsley Patricroft Monton Green to Bury via Clifton Hall Tunnel Eccles Junction Eccles London & North Western Rly to Manchester Victoria

Parkside railway station was an original station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It was sometimes referred to in contemporary accounts as "Kenyon".

The station opened with the line on 15 September 1830. It was originally designed as a halt for early locomotives to take on water about halfway along the new line, a process which was recorded in 1830 as taking about seven minutes. From an early date the water was pre-heated by a lineside boiler. The boiler's chimney can be seen to the right of the print reproduced here. During the opening ceremony the MP William Huskisson was killed in an accident at the station.

In 1839 the station was relocated approximately 24 chains (480 m) east to accommodate the new line to Preston. The old station remained open for a period as a goods halt, being labelled a "Luggage Station" on the 1849 OS map. The new station closed on 1 May 1878, as the newer locomotives did not need to take on water so frequently. One source states "The watering point was not a station."

Both stations are long-demolished, but the Huskisson Memorial remains at the original site near Newton-le-Willows. The modern boundary between the Boroughs of St Helens and Wigan runs through the second station site, the first station site is within St Helens.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Newton-le-Willows Line and station open		London and North Western Railway Liverpool and Manchester Railway		Kenyon Junction Line open, station closed
Lowton Line open, station closed

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Fields, N; Gilbert, A C; Knight, N R (1980), Liverpool to Manchester into the Second Century, Manchester Transport Museum Society, ISBN 0 900857 19 6 {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Shaw, Isaac (1980), Views of the Most Interesting Scenery on the Line of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Oldham: Aveyard, Broadbent & Co, ISBN 0-904848-05-1 {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

External links

• The station on a 1849 OS Map via National Library of Scotland
• The station sites on a 1948 OS Map via npe maps
• The 1st station via Disused Stations UK
• The 2nd station via Disused Stations UK
• The line and mileages via railwaycodes
• The Huskisson Memorial via British Listed Buildings
• The Huskisson Memorial via Historic England