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- Kirkby Royal Ordnance
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- Rainford Junction
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- Orrell
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Rainford
(1848 - 1858)
Rainford station was built on 20 November 1848 on the Liverpool and Bury Railway
The March 1850 timetable showed five trains in each direction on Monday to Saturday with three trains in each direction on Sunday. Trains mostly ran between Liverpool Great Howard Street and Rochdale via Wigan, Bolton and Bury
The St Helens Canal & Railway Company and the East Lancashire Railway (LYR) obtained an Act to create a railway between St Helens and Ormskirk which would pass over the Liverpool and Bury railway to the east of Rainford station. The LYR decided to relocate its Rainford station 400 yards to the east where it could serve the new line. The new station was called Rainford Junction opening on February 1 1858 and the original station was closed completely but the line to Wigan from Kirkby still passes through the site of the original station
The March 1850 timetable showed five trains in each direction on Monday to Saturday with three trains in each direction on Sunday. Trains mostly ran between Liverpool Great Howard Street and Rochdale via Wigan, Bolton and Bury
The St Helens Canal & Railway Company and the East Lancashire Railway (LYR) obtained an Act to create a railway between St Helens and Ormskirk which would pass over the Liverpool and Bury railway to the east of Rainford station. The LYR decided to relocate its Rainford station 400 yards to the east where it could serve the new line. The new station was called Rainford Junction opening on February 1 1858 and the original station was closed completely but the line to Wigan from Kirkby still passes through the site of the original station
