Industrial & Private Lines: Lancashire

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County pages contain details of Industrial and other Private lines that do not form part of any of the principally listed companies on this web site. RailRefs generally remain un-numbered in the county lists.

In the list below the information is set out in tabular form, spread over four columns. The column entries are -

RailRef	The Line Code used in RailRef system.
Line Detail	The principal locations included within the Line Code. They are arranged in 'down' direction order. Locations shown are primarily stations and junctions to allow easy cross check against published atlases. Signal box names appear in italics where these are 'intermediate' to stations or have been shown to facilitate links from other pages on this web site. The inclusion of a station or junction name does not imply that there was always a signal box of that same name!
SBR	The section reference used in the relevant Signal Box Register published by the Society.
ELR	The corresponding Engineer's Line Reference(s). This will be blank for railways that never came within British Railways terms of reference. It will also be blank where British Railways had no surviving responsibility for infrastructure at the time the ELR system came into use.

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RailRef	Line Detail	SBR	ELR
Pilkington Bros Ltd
	Cowley Hill Plateworks Pilkington's Siding NW696 Cowley Hill Works (1) St Helens Central GC542 (1) aka Gerard's Bridge Works Some notes in Railway Bylines for March 2012.
Whittingham (Hospital) Railway
	Grimsargh PR001 Whittingham Hospital See Backtrack, November 2011. Aka Whittingham Asylum Railway.
ENTRIES BELOW ALL HAD THEIR OWN LOCOMOTIVES
Bickershaw Colliery
Off	Hindley Field Coal Co.
Central Wagon Works, Ince
Off LY140	Thompson & Co (Ince) Ltd
Manchester Ship Canal
Off	Extensive system.