Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway

Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway
Overview
Status	closed
Locale	North West England
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map Legend 1900–1968 St Helens Central (GCR) Cowley Hill Works St Helens Central St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway Haydock Haydock Colliery Tunnel Old Boston Colliery Ashton-in-Makerfield Haydock Park Garswood Hall Colliery Golborne Colliery Edge Green Colliery Golborne South West Coast Main Line Golborne North Wigan Junction Railways Lowton St Mary's Liverpool– Manchester lines Kenyon Junction Culcheth Newchurch Halt Risley Factory Liverpool– Manchester lines Glazebrook From 1968 to St Helens Central Haydock Colliery Tunnel Haydock Oil 1968–83 Old Boston Colliery 1963–1987 Lowton Metals Ashton-in- Makerfield Race Traffic 1975 Haydock Park Garswood Hall Colliery 1880–1989 Golborne Colliery Haydock Branch curve Kelbit 1987– Golborne South West Coast Main Line Golborne North to Glazebrook

The Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway, was formed in 1889, but no services ran until 1895 and then only freight. Passenger services did not start until 1900. It incorporated the St Helens and Wigan Junction Railway.^[1] It was taken over by the Great Central Railway in 1906.^[2]