MOVES are underway to get two small stations reopened in the Leigh area. Before Dr Beeching's swingeing cuts in the national rail network, there were 15 railway stations within a tight radius of Leigh serving 100,000 people, including two small stations at Culcheth and Glazebury. After the cuts, only Atherton survived.
Local authorities, organisations, industry, business people and residents protested loud and long, but in vain.
Now local residents are appealing to their MP, Mrs Helen Jones, who sits for a Warrington constituency, to start a new campaign to have the stations reopened.
Clerk to the Culcheth and Glazebury Parish Council, Mr Eric Mitchell, said: "The MP wrote to ask us for our opinion and we said we would support the residents."
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