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Preston and Wigan Railway - Wikipedia

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Preston and Wigan Railway
Overview
Locale	Lancashire
Dates of operation	22 April 1831–22 May 1834
Successor	North Union Railway
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

North Union Railway

Legend

1834 – 1889

Lancaster & Preston Jn Rly

to Lancaster

Maxwell House

(

closed

1844

)

Preston

Butler Street

(ELR)

Victoria Quay goods

Preston

Fishergate Hill

(WLR)

River Ribble

West Lancashire Railway

to Southport

East Lancashire Railway

to Liverpool

Farrington

(renamed Farington)

Blackburn & Preston Rly

to Blackburn

Golden Hill

(renamed Leyland)

Euxton junction

Lancashire Union Railway

to Blackburn

Euxton (NUR)

Euxton (B&PR)

(renamed Standish)

Lancashire & Yorkshire Rly

to Horwich and Horwich Works

Lancashire & Yorkshire Rly

to Hindley

Boar's Head

Liverpool and Bury Railway

to Hindley

Lancashire Union Railway

to Hindley

Lostock Junction

Bolton Trinity Street

Manchester, Bolton & Bury Rly

to Salford

Wigan

Wigan Goods

Springs branch

Liverpool and Bury Railway

to Liverpool

Lancashire Union Railway

to Hindley

Ince Moss Junction

London & North Western Rly

to Manchester

Lancashire Union Railway

to St Helens

to St Helens

to Lowton

LNWR Winwick cut-off

(opened 1864)

Preston Junction

(renamed Lowton)

Liverpool & Manchester Rly

to Manchester

Parkside

(second)

Liverpool & Manchester Rly

to Liverpool

Parkside

(original)

London & North Western Rly

to Warrington

					North Union Railway and predecessor:
					Bolton and Preston Railway
					Other lines (not all shown):
					Great Central Railway predecessors:
					Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway
					Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and predecessors:
					Blackburn and Preston Railway
					East Lancashire Railway (1844–1859)
					West Lancashire Railway
					Manchester and Leeds Railway predecessors:
					Liverpool and Bury Railway
					Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway
					London and North Western Railway and predecessors:
					Lancashire Union Railway
					Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
					Liverpool and Manchester Railway

The Preston and Wigan Railway would have been an early British railway company operating in Lancashire.

Preston and Wigan Railway Act 1831
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the Borough of Wigan to the Borough of Preston, both in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and collateral Branches to communicate therewith.
Citation	1 Will. 4. c. lvi
Other legislation
Repealed by	Preston and Wigan Railway Act 1834
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Preston and Wigan Railway obtained an act of Parliament, the Preston and Wigan Railway Act 1831 (1 Will. 4. c. lvi) on 22 April 1831 to build a 15 miles 30 chains (24.7 km) line between Wigan and Preston.^[a]^{[act 1]}^[4]^[5]^[6]

Preston and Wigan Railway Act 1834
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Citation	4 & 5 Will. 4. c. xxv

On 8 August 1833 the board decided that it would be to their advantage to amalgamate with the Wigan Branch Railway, the directors of the Wigan Branch Railway met shortly thereafter and agreed with them. The Preston and Wigan Railway Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4. c. xxv) was approved and gained royal assent on 22 May 1834 incorporating the two railways as the North Union Railway. It was the first-ever amalgamation of railway companies.^{[act 2]}^[8]

The line was formally opened by the North Union Railway on 21 October 1838 and to the public on 31 October.^[4]

Acts of Parliament

^ An Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the Borough of Wigan to the Borough of Preston, both in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and collateral Branches to communicate therewith.^[3]
^ An Act for uniting the Wigan Branch Railway Company and the Preston and Wigan Railway Company; for authorizing an Alteration to be made in the Line of the last-mentioned Railway; and for repealing, altering, and amending the Acts relating to the said Railways ^[7]

Notes

^ Railways in the United Kingdom are, for historical reasons, measured in miles and chains.^[1] A chain is 22 yards (20 m) long, there are 80 chains to the mile.^[2]

Citations

^ Jacobs 2009, p. 11.
^ "Weights and Measures Act 1985". Legislation.gov.uk. Sch 1, Part VI. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
^ "Local and Personal Act, 1 William IV, c. lvi". UK Parliamentary Archives. UK parliament. 1831. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b Awdry 1990, p. 99.
^ Grant 2017, p. 461.
^ Marshall 1969, p. 66.
^ "Local and Personal Act, 4 & 5 William IV, c. xxv:" (PDF). UK Parliament Parliamentary Archives. UK parliament. 1834. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
^ Sweeney 2008, p. 13.

Bibliography

Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0049-7. OCLC 19514063. CN 8983.
Grant, Donald J. (2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain (1st ed.). Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
Jacobs, Gerald (2009). "Railway Mileages". In Bridge, Mike (ed.). TRACKatlas of Mainland Britain. Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-5-0.
Marshall, John (1969). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-4352-4.
Sweeney, Dennis (2008), The Wigan Branch Railway, Triangle Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9550030-35

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Former joint railways	Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway Citadel Station Joint Committee Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint Railway Furness and Midland Joint Railway Goods Traffic Committee Lancashire Union Railway North Union Railway Preston and Longridge Railway Preston and Wyre Joint Railway Whitehaven, Cleator and Egremont Railway
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