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The factory was the last customer to use the remains of the St Helens and Runcorn Gap Railway's original main line. [2] [3] Trains accessed the factory from the north, [4] leaving the Liverpool to Wigan Line at St Helens Central Station Junction and travelling through Peasley Cross. [5] In its final years the tracks south of the factory had ...
St Helens (pronunciation ⓘ) is a town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 183,200. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, It the second most populous town in the Liverpool City Region. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The station was originally opened by the St Helens Canal and Railway as St Helens on 1 February 1858 to replace two earlier (1833 and 1849) nearby stations. The original 1833 route from Widnes Dock through the town (along with the branch from St Helens Junction) and onwards to Rainford Junction (opened along with the station in 1858) was joined a decade later by the Lancashire Union Railway to ...
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The first local authority for the town of St Helens was a body of improvement commissioners established in 1845. [4] The town was incorporated to become a municipal borough in 1868, after which it was governed by a body formally called the 'mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of St Helens', generally known as the corporation, town council or borough council.
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.
The Thermphos factory on the A557 south of Widnes closed in 2013. United Utilities is based in the west of Warrington at Lingley Mere Business Park in Great Sankey, next to the St Helens boundary; in Lingley Green to the south on the A57 was the former HQ of North West Water; to the north, Amazon have a