Daubhill railway station

Daubhill
Location
Place	Bolton, Greater Manchester
Area	Bolton
Coordinates	53°33′49″N 2°26′52″W / 53.5637°N 2.4478°W / 53.5637; -2.4478Coordinates: 53°33′49″N 2°26′52″W / 53.5637°N 2.4478°W / 53.5637; -2.4478
Grid reference	SD703075
Operations
Original company	Bolton and Leigh Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Platforms	2 (island)
History
18 June 1831	Station opened
2 February 1885	Station closed[1]
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LNWR Lines to Bolton
Legend
Deansgate Goods Bolton Great Moor St Bolton Crook Street Original alignment shown in green Rumworth & Daubhill Daubhill 1831 Plodder Lane Shed Plodder Lane Chequerbent Chequerbent 1831 Little Hulton Wigan Wallgate Manchester-Southport LYR Walkden High Level Walkden Low Level Atherton Bag Lane Wigan NW Manchester & Wigan Rly Atherleigh Westleigh Worsley Leigh Plank Lane Bridgewater Canal Tyldesley Loopline Monton Green Pennington Eccles Kenyon Junction Lime St-Manchester Chat Moss Line

Daubhill railway station was a station on the original route of the Bolton and Leigh Railway. It served the Daubhill (locally pronounced "Dobble") area of south west Bolton.

The route of the original line of the Bolton and Leigh line had two rope-hailed inclines, one at Chequerbent and the other at Daubhill. Improvements in locomotive design meant the inclines became redundant but the line was single track with passing loops. The LNWR decided to improve the line by addressing both issues: it doubled the route throughout and built new, less steeply graded lines bypassing the Chequerbent and Daubhill banks.

Although other stations on the line are marked on 1840s OS maps, Daubhill station is not, though its site can be interpreted by looking at the widening of the site in earlier maps and by the separation of two sidings in later maps, used in conjunction with the Disused Stations maps. These are accessible in External Links, below. Another source, however, places the station further north east, on the northern side of Adelaide Street.^[2]

The new bypass sections were opened in 1885; the 1831 Chequerbent station was closed and a new one opened on a nearby site on the new line and likewise, the 1831 Daubhill station was closed and a new one - named "Rumworth and Daubhill" - was also opened on a nearby site on its new line.

The original Daubhill line was not simply closed, but sections at both ends were retained for many years, with only a short central section being closed and lifted immediately. The southern end survived in traffic serving Daubhill Coal yard until the mid-1960s.^[3][4][5]

References

Sources

• Butt, R.V.J. (1995), The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens, ISBN 1-85260-508-1 
• DVD (2003) [1959–65]. Lancashire & Yorkshire. Carnforth: Telerail. Steam World Archive Volume 4. 
• DVD (2013) [1959–65]. The Richard Greenwood Collection North West England Part 1. Carnforth: Telerail. Steam World Archive Volume 24. 
• Holland, Bert (2001), Plodder Lane for Farnworth, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-6-5 
• Sweeney, Dennis J. (1996), A Lancashire Triangle Part One, Leigh: Triangle Publishing, ISBN 0-9529333-0-6 

External links

• The station via Disused Stations UK
• The station on a 1948 OS map via npe maps
• The station site on an 1844-6 series OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station site on an 1889–91 series OS map via National Library of Scotland
• The station site on an 1892 series OS map overlay via National Library of Scotland
• The station and line via railwaycodes
• A history of the area including the railway via webeden