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Hesketh Bank railway station was a railway station on the
West Lancashire Railway The West Lancashire Railway (WLR) ran northeast from Southport to Preston in northwest England. History Construction was started by Samuel Swire the Mayor of Southport, on 19 April 1873. It opened on 15 September 1882. A branch was construct ...
(WLR) in North West England, which served the village of
Hesketh Bank Hesketh Bank is a small agricultural village in Lancashire, England. It lies to the north-east of the town of Southport on the Irish Sea estuary of the River Ribble. The area falls under West Lancashire Borough Council for administrative purp ...
. The station, originally known as 'Hesketh Bank and Tarleton', opened on 20 February 1878 and was located on the western bank of the River Douglas near a dock where the WLR operated a steamship across the River Ribble to
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. By 1882 the station was referred to as 'Hesketh for Tarleton', but by 1895 the station appears to have been formally renamed to just 'Hesketh Bank'. The station was originally the northern terminus of what was to be the ''Southport-Preston Line'', running from Hesketh Park on the northern outskirts of Southport; the line through to
Preston Preston is a place name, surname and given name that may refer to: Places England *Preston, Lancashire, an urban settlement **The City of Preston, Lancashire, a borough and non-metropolitan district which contains the settlement **County Boro ...
was opened in September 1888 after the opening of a swing bridge over the Douglas in May of that year. An engine shed was located at the station but closed when the station became a through station, and was demolished by the following year. In 1880 a short goods line, approximately long, was opened along the west bank of the river to a terminus at
Tarleton Tarleton is a village and civil parish in the borough of West Lancashire, Lancashire, England. It situated in the Lancashire mosslands approximately 10 miles north east of Southport, approximately 10 miles south west of Preston, approximately ...
Lock, at the end of the Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. As the WLR did not own the land upon which the line was constructed, nor was it acquired by an Act of Parliament, the company had to pay a lease fee (presumably to the local borough council) until 3 September 1881, after the land was vested by Act to the WLR on 3 June 1881. The station closed on 7 September 1964 as a result of the
Beeching axe The Beeching cuts (also Beeching Axe) was a plan to increase the efficiency of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain. The plan was outlined in two reports: ''The Reshaping of British Railways'' (1963) and ''The Development of the M ...
, the buildings and platforms demolished and the rails removed by February 1965, and the land later developed as a housing estate.


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Hesketh Bank Railway Station & Bridge Photographs
accessed 5 March 2007. Disused railway stations in the Borough of West Lancashire Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1878 Beeching closures in England Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 {{NorthWestEngland-railstation-stub