BRINSCALL HISTORY

Brinscall was a station on the Lancashire Union and Lancashire and Yorkshire railways joint line, which ran from Wigan to Blackburn. The line was in two parts, leaving the West Coast main line at Boars Head station, just north of Wigan, and running to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway’s Bolton, Chorley and Preston line, which it joined at a junction just north of Adlington Station. Intermediate stations were provided at Red Rock, and White Bear, which was the name of the station in Adlington on the joint line.

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After Chorley station, the other section of the line diverged to the north east and intermediate stations were provided at Heapey, Brinscall, Withnell and Feniscoles, before joining the Preston to Blackburn line , just before Cherry Tree station.

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The Lancashire Union Raileay became part of the London and North Western Railway, which merged with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1922, and in turn this became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923.