page_title: Banks railway station
hierarchical_section_title: Banks railway station
caption_attribution_description: English: Banks Station, with Preston - Southport train. View eastwards, towards Preston; ex-Lancashire &amp; Yorkshire (West Lancashire) Preston - Southport line, which was closed with the station on 7/9/64 - less than two weeks after this photograph. The train is the 17.59 from Preston, headed by LMS Fowler 2-6-4T No. 42369.
context_page_description: Banks railway station was on the West Lancashire Railway in England. It served the village of Banks near Southport.
  The station and line opened on 19 February 1878. On that day, the first passenger train was greeted at Banks by "simple songs" from the Church School children. The vicar of Banks, a passenger on the train, rewarded them with a "shower of coppers".
  The station had a depot in its goods yard for coal merchants in Banks. Along the track, towards Preston, the first crossing was at Long Lane. The crossing keeper who opened the gates for farmers and anyone else wanting to take vehicles or cows across had a house provided with the job.
  Mrs. Mary Wignall of Ralph's Wife's Lane was interviewed by a local newspaper reporter in 1958 when she was 93 and the oldest resident in Banks. She said, "I well remember watching the first train pass through the village with scores of school children lining the route catching pastries, cakes and oranges thrown from windows".
  The station and line closed on 7 September 1964.
context_section_description: Banks railway station was on the West Lancashire Railway in England. It served the village of Banks near Southport.
  The station and line opened on 19 February 1878. On that day, the first passenger train was greeted at Banks by "simple songs" from the Church School children. The vicar of Banks, a passenger on the train, rewarded them with a "shower of coppers".
  The station had a depot in its goods yard for coal merchants in Banks. Along the track, towards Preston, the first crossing was at Long Lane.  The crossing keeper who opened the gates for farmers and anyone else wanting to take vehicles or cows across had a house provided with the job.
  Mrs. Mary Wignall of Ralph's Wife's Lane was interviewed by a local newspaper reporter in 1958 when she was 93 and the oldest resident in Banks. She said, "I well remember watching the first train pass through the village with scores of school children lining the route catching pastries, cakes and oranges thrown from windows".
  The station and line closed on 7 September 1964.
caption: Banks railway station in 1964
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