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Leigh railway station, originally named Bedford Leigh and later Leigh and Bedford, is a closed railway station located in Bedford, Leigh, Greater Manchester. It was situated within the historic county of Lancashire. ==History== Leigh station, in common with other stations on the Tyldesley Loopline, was opened by the London and North Western Railway in the Bedford township on 1 September 1864. At a junction to the west of Tyldesley station, the line from Eccles to Wigan headed north west and the branch to Bedford Leigh, Bradshaw Leach (which was later renamed Pennington) and Kenyon Junction headed south west. On 1 August 1876 ''Bedford Leigh'' was renamed ''Leigh & Bedford'' and on 1 July 1914 was named ''Leigh''. The station joined the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping in 1923. It passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The station closed on 5 May 1969 leaving the town without a passenger railway. Coal deposits were the chief motivation for building a railway in the area and the railway's supporters included many local colliery owners and industrialists. In 1874 John Speakman sank Bedford Colliery to the south of the railway. The colliery railway was linked to the main line at Speakman's Sidings between Bedford Leigh and Tyldesley stations in 1882. 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「Leigh (Lancashire) railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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