• Lancashire. Its station opened as Bedford Leigh in 1864, was renamed Leigh & Bedford in 1876 and Leigh in 1914. The station closed in 1969. Leigh's railway...
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  • railway station (Staffordshire), a closed station in Staffordshire, England Leigh railway station (Lancashire), a closed station in Lancashire, England...
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    northwest of Chat Moss. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, Leigh was originally the centre of a large ecclesiastical parish covering...
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  • The Bolton and Leigh Railway (B&LR) was the first public railway in Lancashire. It opened for goods on 1 August 1828, and thus preceded the Liverpool...
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  • the historic county of Lancashire. Its station opened in 1831 and closed in 1954. The Bolton and Leigh Railway reached Leigh in 1830 and was extended...
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  • within the historic county of Lancashire. The station opened as Bradshaw Leach on the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway in 1831 and was renamed Pennington...
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  • Manchester Railway and the Kenyon and Leigh Junction Railway. It was situated in the historic county of Lancashire. The station opened in 1830 as Bolton Junction...
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  • Atherleigh railway station served an area of Leigh in what was then Lancashire, England. It was located on the Bolton and Leigh Railway line which ran...
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    through the site of the station was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) on 20 November 1848, other stations on the line opened at this...
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    government units from the administrative county of Lancashire. These were the Municipal Borough of Leigh, the urban districts of Abram, Aspull, Atherton...
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