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Newton-le-Willows railway station is a railway station in the town of Newton-le-Willows, in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, and at the edge of the Merseytravel region (16 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (26.2 km) from Liverpool Lime Street). The station is branded Merseyrail.
Newton Bridge: Golborne London and North Western Railway 1889 - 1923 (NUR dissolved) Kenyon Junction Newton-le-Willows (station renamed) Golborne London, Midland and Scottish Railway London and North Western Railway 1923 - 1948 (Grouping) Kenyon Junction Newton-le-Willows: Golborne BR(LMR) London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1948 - 1949 ...
Formerly the only section of City Line route electrified was between Lime Street and Liverpool South Parkway, which is used by Virgin and London Midland Electric Multiple Units. The line from Liverpool to Manchester via Newton-le-Willows was electrified, along with the Liverpool–Wigan line, opening in early 2015. [13]
Newton-le-Willows is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. The population at the 2021 census was 24,642. [ 2 ] Newton-le-Willows is on the eastern edge of St Helens, south of Wigan and north of Warrington , equidistant to Liverpool and Manchester .
The Metropolitan Borough was formed on 1 April 1974 as a merger of the former County Borough of St Helens, along with the urban districts of Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford, and parts of Billinge-and-Winstanley and Ashton-in-Makerfield urban districts, along with part of Whiston Rural District, all from the administrative county of Lancashire.
Due to the change of line on the through Manchester services, the Liverpool trains no longer run on the line through Warrington Central, but travel via Newton-le-Willows instead. [27] Six trains per hour provided by TPE in both directions run on the Huddersfield line between Stalybridge in Greater Manchester and Leeds: [28]
The Manchester to Newton-le-Willows section was completed on 17 July 2013, it was marked by a ceremony at Eccles station at which the Secretary of State for Transport, Rt. Hon. Patrick McLoughlin MP, was present. Electrified Manchester to Edinburgh and Glasgow services have been running since the timetable change in December 2013.
Newton-le-Willows has held a market by Royal Charter since the 14th century. By the 1890s, the Earlestown area of Newton-le-Willows had outgrown the older part of the town and so the market was moved to its current location in Earlestown and the market square is the town's centre-piece.