Westleigh railway station

The station was certainly popular, Sweeney reports that 3,393 tickets were issued at Leigh during the holiday week of 1852.

Special trains were run to Newton races and in 1859 fast excursion trains picked up passengers at Leigh on the way to Holyhead to see Brunel's Great Eastern steamship.

The goods station was on the west side of the line and had a 2 ton capacity crane.

[3][5] In the 1930s up to 20 trains per day operated between Kenyon Junction and Bolton via Westleigh.

[7] Holiday excursion trains and Rugby League specials called at the station up to 1958.