New Station, Bolton Street, Bury for the East Lancashire Railway Company

The Bury Station, is close to, and entered by an incline, from Bolton-street, the principal street of the town. This is not only a handsome station, but the central offices of the company are erected here, close to the line. The company's offices and station house form a handsome brick edifice with stone dressings on the right or east side of the line, three storeys in height, with a frontage of 180 feet; and consisting of a central portion, 24 feet deep, and two connection wings, each 32 feet square. The station ground is not yet completed. It is roofed over for a length of 274 feet; the roof is light, being of iron lined with inch board, the central ridge on both sides being of horticultural glass. The roof springs from the office buildings, on the east side of the line; on the west side it is supported by 15 cast iron columns. The station is well lighted at night by 16 octagonal gas lanterns. There are three passenger platforms at this station; the one adjoining the offices, for the trains north, is of stone, 280 feet long and 16 feet wide; the centre one (between the two lines of rail) is a wooden step platform, about 200 feet in length, for the Accrington trains; and there is a third platform of wood, on the west side of the line about the same length for the trains south. Beyond the station shed on the west side, are the lines or sidings for the up and down goods trains, which are thus kept wholly apart from the passenger trains and so one of the most fertile sources of collisions at stations is avoided. At each end of the offices is a roofed carriage shed; the north one is 185 feet long, the south one about ten feet shorter. About a mile south of the station is the locomotive shed and opposite, on the other side of the line, the clerks' offices in the locomotive department. The carriage building shops are opposite the station and general offices on the west of the line. Immediately on quitting the station northwards, the line is carried through a tunnel under Bolton-street, and north of this tunnel is a coal stage east of the line. and an extensive goods warehouse west of it. [Manchester Guardian 28 July 1849 page 9]

Reference    Manchester Guardian. Saturday 23 May 1846 Page 11 (Contracts)
Reference    Manchester Guardian. Saturday 30 May 1846 Page 11 (Contracts)

Reference    Manchester Guardian 28 July 1849 page 9

See also Walters