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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.
After passing Warrington Junction, the parade of trains passed through the historic market town of Newton-le-Willows, roughly at the midpoint of the line. Fifty-five minutes after leaving Liverpool the procession was scheduled to stop for the locomotives to take on water at Parkside railway station , [ 59 ] half a mile east of Newton-le-Willows ...
Northern operate two trains per hour on the Chat Moss line, an hourly all-stops service from Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Airport operated by Class 323 and 331 EMUs and an hourly service from Chester to Leeds via Bradford Interchange which calls at Earlestown and Newton-le-Willows, operated by Class 195 diesel multiple units.
There will be an alternative route to Liverpool docks for electrically-operated freight trains, and better opportunities of electrified access to the proposed freight terminal at Parkside near Newton-le-Willows. The electrification of this line would greatly assist in recommissioning passenger trains, as costs would be reduced.
BR Class 40 no D213 Andania was one of a hundred and eighty members of the class to be built at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows. The British Rail Class 40's were built both at Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns in Darlington. D213 Andania stood in Crewe with a railtour, is one of the 180 class 40's built at Vulcan Foundry.
one to the west of both stations which opened in 1847 facing Newton Bridge (later called Newton-le-Willows) and Liverpool was known variously as Parkside West Junction, Parkside & Liverpool Junction, and since at least 2005, Newton-le-Willows Junction. [22] [23]
Newton-le-Willows and Earlestown railway stations have a regional service with regular trains running to Liverpool and Manchester, St Helens, Warrington, Chester, West Yorkshire and along the North Wales coast to Llandudno. Earlestown is a very large station for the size of the town, with 5 platforms.
Locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows, latterly part of the English Electric group. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vulcan Foundry locomotives . Pages in category "Vulcan Foundry locomotives"