Western Lines (North)

Section of Line	Opened	Notes
Parkside No.1 to Edge Hill [Liverpool (Crown St.)]	17.09.1830 (Fri) (P)*	* Official opening two days earlier.
Parkside No.1 to Edge Hill [Liverpool (Crown St.)]	01.12.1830 (G)
Edge Hill to Liverpool (Lime St.)	15.08.1836

	Junctions and other features	Running Lines		Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
	Junctions and other features	Up	Down	Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
Maximum permissible speed 75 m.p.h. on Main, Fast and Slow lines. Maximum permissibly speed 45 m.p.h. on Goods lines.
1		–	↓	Kenyon Junction No.1 (Central Lines)	–
2		↑	↓	Parkside No.1	1m 1705yds
3		↑	↓	Parkside No.2	0m 874yds
4		↑	↓	Newton-le-Willows Station	0m 712yds
5		↑	↓	Earlestown No.2	0m 1593yds
	?			Earlestown No.3
6		↑	↓↓↓	Earlestown No.4	0m 511yds
7		↑	↓	Earlestown No.5	0m 488yds
8		↑	↓	Collins Green Station	0m 1554yds	URS 55
9		↑	↓	Bold Colliery Siding	1m 195yds
10		↑	↓	St. Helens Junction No.1	0m 1044yds
11		↑	↓↓	Lea Green Station	1m 1195yds
12		↑	↓	Rainhill Station	1m 83yds
13		↑	↓	Top of Whiston	0m 1070yds
14		↑	↓	Huyton Quarry Station	1m 1599yds	URS 43 URS 43
15		↑	↓↓	Huyton Station	0m 1558yds
				Roby Station
16		↑↑	↓↓	Broad Green Station	2m 106yds
17		↑↑	↓↓	Olive Mount Junction (Signals slow or north lines only)	0m 1692yds
18		↑↑	↓↓	Edge Hill No.5 (Signals slow or north lines only)	0m 944yds
19		↑↑	↓↓	Edge Hill No.3	0m 479yds
20		↑↑	↓↓	Edge Hill No.2	0m 473yds
21	—	↑↑	–	Liverpool Lime Street	1m 667yds

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History of Newton-le-Willows and Earlstown This excellent web site is well worth visiting and is about as good as local history sites can get. Loads of railway information and a selection of old maps of the district.

Leigh, Kenyon Junction No.1 to Liverpool Lime Street

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