page_title: Bury Knowsley Street railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bury Knowsley Street railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: Knowsley Street railway station Original description: Bury Knowsley Street station site 1988 A platform edge from the station closed in 1970 can be seen on the right. The trackbed had been used until recently by British Rail coal trains to Ramsbottom with a diamond crossing where the Knowsley Street track met the new line to Bury Interchange. That point is marked where the two straight lines of bushes meet. The East Lancashire Railway preservation later relaid the track through Knowsley Street and on to Heywood.
context_page_description: Bury Knowsley Street is a former railway station in Bury.
context_section_description: The station was first opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway on 1 May 1848 (as the eastern terminus of the Liverpool and Bury Railway) originally being named simply Bury.  Services ran east to Heywood and Rochdale and west to Bolton and Wigan Wallgate (and also towards Chorley, Liverpool & Preston).  There was also a connection from here northwards to neighbouring Bolton Street station on the East Lancashire Railway line from Clifton Junction to Bacup & Accrington. The station was renamed twice: to Bury Market Place in February 1866, and to Bury Knowsley Street in 1888. The line and station were closed on 5 October 1970 as part of continuing cutbacks in British Rail services and the line west to Bolton subsequently dismantled.
caption: What was left of Knowsley Street railway station in 1988
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