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Lostock railway station serves the suburb of Lostock in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. According to large scale Ordnance Survey maps and local usage, the area is named Lostock Junction and the station is referred to as such by many local people. Indeed, Network Rail's own "location map" refers to the area as "Lostock Junction".〔(Local Area Lostock (LOT) ). Retrieved 6 December 2009.〕 This is similar to the situation in London where Clapham Junction railway station is in fact in Battersea, and the surrounding area has taken the name of Clapham Junction. Lostock itself is some distance to the west of the station. ==History== The railway line between and had opened as far as (between Adlington and ) on 4 February 1841, and among the original stations on this route, the first station out of Bolton was at . On 20 November 1848, the Liverpool and Bury Railway was opened giving a route between Bolton and Wigan, and the point where it connected to the Bolton–Preston line was named Lostock Junction; the first station out of Bolton on this route was . Later, a station was constructed at the junction, also named ''Lostock Junction'', which opened around August 1852. The station gave its name to the village which grew around it. This station had platforms on both the Preston and Wigan routes.〔(Lostock and Chew Moor - Railways ). Retrieved 6 December 2009.〕 On 17 July 1920, four people were killed and 148 were injured in a near head-on collision between two Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway passenger trains at Lostock Junction due to a signal having erroneously been passed at danger Lostock Junction Station closed on 7 November 1966〔 as part of the programme of cuts initiated by the Beeching Report of 1963. However, on 16 May 1988 the station was reopened, but now with platforms only on the Preston route and renamed ''Lostock Parkway'', a large car park for the use of park-and-ride commuters having been provided.〔 The suffix "Parkway" was later dropped.〔BR timetables 1988 and 1989.〕
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