Signed it last neet. Won't happen though.

i asked this on another forum

where exactly would they put a station in Leigh?

I’ve signed it but I agree with you, we’ve more chance of having another terminal added to Westleigh International

By all accounts, in Warrington

Personally I would think that the idea that was put on here about making a station in Culcherth and extending the bypass to it is the best option. You would see an explosion of investment in Leigh. The Pies would be green with envy.

Would that be any nearer than Atherton or Daisy Hill?

Yes loads closer. I would say its about a mile (as the crow flies)from the town centre. I would say that the distance from the Robin Hood lights to the East lancs on the end of the bypass. Thats the old line route that connected to the main line anyway.

There are no longer any lines going through Culcheth however Glazebury is on the Liverpool-Manchester line and is just under three miles from Leigh centre.

Various petitions have failed to get Glazebury re-opened.

IMO extending the Metro from Eccles to Leigh would be best.

Unless it was near town centre its pointless having one.

If they drained the canal they could run a line there, Waterside pub could become the Leigh station, town centre, car parking, jobs a goodun.



In fact

the line could start from Plank Lane, stops at Penny Park for LSV/East/Miners, Leigh central (was waterside), Butts Bridge, Train station (was Boathouse Astley), The Depot (was Moorings Boothstown), then on through Worsley and into Eccles.

The best option has got to be metrolink - and the majority of the route is already there, as from the East Lancs it could follow the proposed guided busway route into Leigh town centre. This would also connect astley & tyldesley & boothstown on to the metrolink thereby reducing even further the number of cars using the A580 to get into Manchester every day.



This of course makes far too much sense to the people responsible for public transport planning who will continue to fritter away public money on planning issues, consultation exercises, public surveys (no-one wants the busway so they keep doing them til they get the results they want) and various other jobs for the boys.



A rail link is highly unlikely. A metrolink should have happened years ago and Leigh sould have been THE first to have it. Way before Altrincham, Bury, Rochdale, Oldham etc that already had rail links to Manchester.