The Wigan Branch Railway was a short-lived early British railway company, formed in 1830 and operating from 1832 to 1834 in Lancashire. It was constructed...

parliamentary authorised railway amalgamation. The two companies amalgamated were the Wigan Branch Railway (WBR) and the Preston and Wigan Railway (P&WR). In 1844...

Wigan North Western railway station is one of two railway stations serving the town centre of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is a moderately-sized...

with the Wigan Branch Railway, the directors of the Wigan Branch Railway met shortly thereafter and agreed with them. The Preston and Wigan Railway Act 1834...

Helens and Wigan Junction Railway. It was taken over by the Great Central Railway in 1906. The railway was incorporated by the St. Helens and Wigan Junction...

Line and the former London and North Western Railway (L&NWR) Springs branch about 2 km (1.2 mi) south of Wigan North Western. The first locomotive shed in...

to the Wigan Branch Railway, which ran north from a junction at Parkside, which faced Manchester. In fact both the Warrington and Newton Railway and the...

Boar's Head railway station served the southern part of the village of Standish. The Wigan Branch Railway (WBR) was authorised on 29 May 1830 to connect...

railway system in Wigan started development in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution. The first railway built in the town was the Wigan Branch...

The Kirkby Branch Line is a branch railway line from Wigan to Headbolt Lane. The line's original route was from Liverpool to Bury and later the most northern...

The Wigan Junction Railways connected Glazebrook West Junction with the Lancashire Coalfields at Wigan. The Wigan Junction Railways (WJR) was incorporated...

The Liverpool and Bury Railway was formed by an act of Parliament in 1845 to link Liverpool and Bury via Kirkby, Wigan and Bolton, the line opening on...

The Manchester and Wigan Railway refers to a railway in North West England, opened in 1864 and closed to passengers on 3 May 1969, which was part of the...

of the Wigan Branch Railway (WBR) when it opened the 6 miles 47 chains (10.6 km) long line from Parkside on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The station...

Springs Branch may refer to Springs Branch Canal, a canal branch in Skipton, Yorkshire, England Wigan Springs Branch TMD, a railway traction maintenance...

Parkside to Wigan was opened on 3 September 1832) (closed 1 May 1878) Kenyon Junction (at the junction with the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway and from...

railway station was an original station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It then became the interchange station between lines when the Wigan Branch...

South railway station was one of two stations serving the town of Golborne, to the south of Wigan. The line was opened by the Wigan Branch Railway (WBR)...

The Liverpool–Wigan line is a railway line in the north-west of England, running between Liverpool Lime Street and Wigan North Western via St Helens Central...

Leeds Central as well as local trains to Wigan Wallgate and Bolton until after the nationalisation of the railways in 1948 and well beyond. Services on the...

no children. In 1830 he was one of the initial proprietors of the Wigan Branch Railway. Thomas Legh made his nephew, William John Legh, his successor. William...

Wigan (/ˈwɪɡən/ WIG-ən) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas. The town is midway between the two cities of Manchester, 16 miles...

North Union Railway, which had in the meantime been formed by an amalgamation of the Wigan Branch Railway and the Preston and Wigan Railway. On 19 February...

proprietors of the Wigan Branch Railway becoming its first Chairman once it was established. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Borough of Wigan in Lancashire...

Lancashire Union Railway, 25 July 1864 – 16 July 1883 (joint LNWR) North Union Railway, 22 May 1834 – 26 July 1889 (joint LNWR) Wigan Branch Railway, 29 May 1830...

Wigan Central railway station was a railway station near the centre of Wigan, Lancashire, England. Wigan Central station was on Station Road, some way...

maps as red, and covers the Liverpool-Wigan Line. The station was originally opened by the St Helens Canal and Railway as St Helens on 1 February 1858 to...

and vested the section between Boar's Head (on the North Union Railway (NUR) north of Wigan) and Cherry Tree (on the LYR near Blackburn) jointly with the...

contractors for the Wigan Branch Railway constructed in 1830-32. In the 1830s, Pritchard and Hoof split, and Hoof changed to building railway tunnels and cuttings...

After the Wigan Junction Railways opened in 1879, a branch from them to St Helens was promoted locally, as the St Helens and Wigan Junction Railway. It was...