Bolton Crook Street railway station

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 Street 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.

Bolton, Crook Street
General information
LocationBolton, Greater Manchester, Bolton
England
Coordinates53.5734°N 2.4312°W / 53.5734; -2.4312
Grid referenceSD716088
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyBolton and Leigh Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 August 1871Opened as temporary terminus
28 September 1874Closed to passengers[1]
1 October 1967Closed for freight

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 Exchange via Roe Green Junction and Walkden Low Level by the London and North Western Railway which did not start until 1 April 1875, when it ran from Great Moor Street. It is therefore possible that Crook Street handed the Kenyon Junction traffic to the new Great Moor Street station in 1874.

Accidents

On 29 October 1875, an accident occurred at Roe Green Junction but the official register of accidents gives no actual details

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
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens. ISBN 1-85260-508-1.
  • Dart, Maurice (2010). Images of Lancashire and Cheshire Railways: Classic Photographs from the Maurice Dart Railway Collection. Wellington, Somerset: Halsgrove. ISBN 978-0-85704-056-5.
  • Sweeney, Dennis J. (1996). A Lancashire Triangle Part One. Leigh: Triangle Publishing. ISBN 0-9529333-0-6.
  • Holland, Bert (2001). Plodder Lane for Farnworth. Leigh: Triangle Publishing. ISBN 0-9529333-6-5.
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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