See also: Rumworth and Daubhill railway station.
| Daubhill | |
| Status: | Disused |
| Borough: | Bolton, Greater Manchester, Bolton |
| Country: | England |
| Coordinates: | 53.5637°N -2.4478°W |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Platforms: | 2 (island) |
| Original: | Bolton and Leigh Railway |
| Pregroup: | London and North Western Railway |
| Years: | 18 June 1831 |
| Events: | Station opened |
| Years1: | 2 February 1885 |
| Events1: | Station closed |
Daubhill railway station was a station on the original route of the Bolton and Leigh Railway. It served the Daubhill area of south west Bolton. It was open from 1831 until its replacement in 1885 by a later station.
The Bolton and Leigh Railway (B&LR) opened for goods traffic in 1828, followed by passenger services in 1831.
The railway was built as a single track line and the route included two inclines which were worked using ropes hauled by stationary engines, locomotive haulage being used on the flatter sections of the line. One of these inclines was situated at Daubhill with the line climbing up out of Bolton. This incline was operated by a 20hp stationary steam engine which hauled the trains up the incline, in the downhill direction trains worked by gravity.
The station at Daubhill opened on 11 June 1831. The station site was not marked on contemporary maps, however the approximate site can be deduced:
Improvements in locomotive design meant the inclines became redundant, to avoid the incline, and allow steam locomotives to haul trains for the entire journey, the LNWR, successor to the B&LR, built a deviation over easier gradients. This required the resiting of the 1831 Daubhill station.
The station closed on 2 February 1885 and was replaced by a new Rumworth and Daubhill only a short distance away on the same day.
The original Daubhill line was not simply closed, but sections at both ends were retained for many years, with only a short central section being closed and lifted immediately. The northern end was retained to serve the Crown Brewery (later Magee, Marshall's). The southern end of the old line survived to serve Sunnyside Mills and Daubhill Coal yard until the mid-1960s.