Bolton Great Moor Street railway station
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Bolton Great Moor Street railway station was the first railway station in Bolton
Bolton
Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester, in the North West of England. Close to the West Pennine Moors, it is north west of the city of Manchester. Bolton is surrounded by several smaller towns and villages which together form the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, of which Bolton is the...

, opened on 11 June 1831 by the Bolton and Leigh Railway
Bolton and Leigh Railway
The Bolton and Leigh Railway was the first public railway in the historic county of Lancashire, England. It opened in 1828 for goods.-History:...

. Originally named simply Bolton, it was renamed Bolton Great Moor Street in October 1849. The original street level station was replaced by a temporary station at Crook Street Goods Yard on 1 August 1871 while the new Bolton Great Moor Street station was built in a classic 'Italian' style. The new station opened either on 1 April 1875 or on 28 September 1874 on the same site as the original station but ten feet higher. The rebuilt station had four platforms covered over by a roof. The rebuild coincided with the building of a new direct line to Manchester Exchange via Walkden
Walkden railway station
Walkden railway station is one of the principal stations that lie on the Atherton line, between Wigan and Manchester. The station is located 8¼ miles west of Manchester Victoria with regular Northern Rail services to these towns as well as Salford, Swinton and Hindley...

 and Roe Green by the London and North Western Railway
London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three companies – the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway...

 which opened
on 1 April 1875. It was closed to passenger use by British Railways on 29 March 1954. The station was demolished in 1966 and the area redeveloped.

Great Moor Street station was served by local trains from Kenyon Junction
Kenyon Junction railway station
Kenyon Junction was a junction railway station at Kenyon on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Bolton and Leigh Railway near Culcheth in Warrington, England. It was situated within the historic county of Lancashire. The station opened in 1831 and closed to passengers on 2 January 1961...

 via Leigh and from Manchester Exchange via Walkden
Walkden railway station
Walkden railway station is one of the principal stations that lie on the Atherton line, between Wigan and Manchester. The station is located 8¼ miles west of Manchester Victoria with regular Northern Rail services to these towns as well as Salford, Swinton and Hindley...

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