A Northern Trains Class 150 at Headbolt Lane railway station
Overview
Status
Operational
Owner
Network Rail
Locale
North West England
Termini
Wigan Wallgate
Headbolt Lane
Stations
6
Service
System
National Rail
Operator(s)
Northern Trains
History
Opened
20 November 1848[1]
Technical
Line length
12.25 miles (19.71 km)[2][3]
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map
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Kirkby branch line
Legend
Manchester–Southport line
to Manchester
Pemberton Loop
Wigan Wallgate
West Coast Main Line
Manchester–Southport line
to Southport
Pemberton
Orrell
Upholland
Rainford
Skelmersdale branch
St Helens Railway
Headbolt Lane
Kirkby
North Mersey Branch
Merseyrail Northern line
to Liverpool
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 of the Liverpool to Manchester lines.[3] The line was split at Kirkby in 1977 with the western section forming a high frequency branch of the electrified Merseyrail Northern Line, also referred to as the Kirkby branch line. The Kirkby branch to Wigan remained a low frequency (one train per hour) diesel operated service by Northern Trains from Headbolt Lane to Manchester.[4]
^Cite error: The named reference SB-LEx was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Electronic National Rail Timetable (eNRT): Winter 2010/2011" (Zipped PDF). Network Rail. 12 December 2010. p. 1541. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
^ abMacfarlane 1987, p. 43.
^Macfarlane 1987, p. 42.
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