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Flow Moss was a short-lived, original railway station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway south of Astley village in what was then the county of Lancashire, England. ==Location== This station's exact location station is difficult to establish because after it closed in 1842 a second station, named Flow Moss Cottage was opened around 1844. Sources are sometimes self-contradictory about which station is which and other times silent. The water is muddied still further by Butt's bare statement that Flow Moss Cottage was simply renamed "Astley" implying no change of location. Flow Moss Cottage's location is clear, as it appears on the OS map surveyed in 1844 and published in 1848.〔(The station on an 1848 OS map via ''National Library of Scotland'' )〕 Astley station also appears on the adjacent map some distance to the east, casting doubt on the idea of simple renaming without relocating.〔(Astley station on an 1848 OS map via ''National Library of Scotland'' )〕 There is no trace of Flow Moss Cottage on the 1888 OS map. No station or other lineside structure named simply "Flow Moss" appears on either the 1848 or the 1888 map, though on the 1848 map the geographical feature "Flow Moss" is prominently labelled immediately north of Flow Moss Cottage. One source, writing with local knowledge but over a century later, places "Flow Moss" station between Flow Moss Cottage and Astley station, where Borron's Tramway met the Liverpool and Manchester line at right angles.〔(Chat Moss railways via ''Unrecorded'' )〕 This meeting point is readily identifiable at the extreme right of the 1848 OS map, but it gives no hint of any structure there, in use or otherwise.〔(The station on an 1848 OS map via ''National Library of Scotland'' )〕 It can readily be seen that the meeting point had evolved by 1888 to a roadway or track running adjacent to the south side of the Liverpool and Manchester line eastwards to Astley station.〔(The station site on a 1888-1913 OS map via ''National Library of Scotland'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flow Moss railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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