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Old Mill Lane railway station was on the St Helens to Rainford Junction [1] then Ormskirk line south of Rainford, England. [2] It opened on 1 August 1906 [ 3 ] and closed on 18 June 1951. The line through the station closed in 1964 and has since been lifted.
St Helens Mill : 1819 : standing : 57: Notes: A set buildings started in 1819 by Joshua Binns, who had been working in Old Mill. A new section was added in 1824 and the buildings housed 18 pairs of mule with 9,936 spindles with 14 carding engines.
Sources differ on when the station first appeared on public timetables. The Disused Stations website gives 1856 [5] whereas Pixton gives 1854. [6] The station was reduced to 'Halt' status in 1926 [6] and closed completely on 18 June 1951, when passenger trains were withdrawn between Widnes and St Helens.
Moss Bank railway station was on the St Helens to Rainford Junction [1] then Ormskirk line on the northern edge of St Helens, England. [2] It opened on 3 February 1858 and closed to passengers on 18 June 1951. The line through the station closed in 1964 and has since been lifted.
The Lancashire Union Railway (LUR) was authorised by an act of Parliament [which?] of 25 July 1864, to build a line from the Blackbrook branch of the St Helens Railway to Adlington on the Bolton-to-Preston line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) near Chorley. This connected with the existing lines between Garston Dock and St Helens.
Carr Mill railway station was on the Lancashire Union Railway in the Carr Mill area of St Helens, England. It opened on 1 January 1896 and closed on 1 January 1917. [ 2 ] Proposals to construct a new station to serve the expanding population have been suggested by Merseytravel but funding has yet to arrive. [ 1 ]
The main station building for trains to St Helens was on the east side of the twin tracks (furthest from the village centre). [5] A lightly constructed wooden building on the opposite side of the tracks sufficed for passengers towards Rainford Junction and Ormskirk , next to which was the signalbox which controlled the level crossing gates.
The Wheatsheaf is a public house at Mill Lane, St Helens, Merseyside WA9 4HN, England.It was built in 1936–1938 by the brewery Greenall Whitley & Co. Ltd of Warrington, to a design by the architect W. A. Hartley.