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Conroy Way, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 8SR

The station was a very basic structure, built to serve the adjacent Vulcan Foundry engineering works. It had closed to passengers the previous year. The line was the original Warrington an Newton Railway, built in 1831 as a branch off the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and in 1837 becoming part of the Grand Junction Railway to Birmingham. The locomotive is 92116, a British Railways Standard Class 9 2-10-0 on a freight train.

Just a snippet of the vast Vulcan Works near Earlestown. The expanse of grass in the foreground is a bowling green.

Link to a short history of the works http://www.n-le-w.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=27

It is thought that the construction of Vulcan Village began in 1833, though records of the origin of the Village are few and fragmented. The only indication that the Village existed in 1835, are the notices to hawkers and ballad singers, which are located on the gable ends of Derby Row in the Village Dated 1st of May 1835, the notice was probably the result of harassment by hawkers and others in a similar plight, which was a common occurrence in the years following the Napoleonic Wars. This notice is on the northern end of the row, there is an identical notice on the southern end. TAKE NOTICE PRIVATE PROPERTY WE DO HEREBY CAUTION ALL HAWKERS RAG AND BONE DEALERS BEGGARS BALLAD SINGERS &c FROM TRESPASSING ON THESE PREMISES ANY PERSON OR PERSONS OF THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION FOUND HEREON AFTER THIS NOTICE WILL BE PROSECUTED WITH THE UTMOST RIGOR OF THE LAW VULCAN FOUNDRY MAY 1st 1835.

The Vulcan Village Conservation Area has 114 properties. With the exception of two, all the buildings are modest two storey domestic dwellings of 19th Century origin and style. All of the residential properties are in six rows of terraces (Manchester, Liverpool, Derby, Sheffield, Chester and London Row) with narrow frontages directly onto the footways. This is Wargrave Road, looking south through the village; on the right hand side is Derby Row. To the left is The Vulcan Inn.

The Vulcan Works (operated by MAN B&W Diesel since 2000) closed at the end of 2002 and the business transferred to the MAN B&W Diesel Ltd, Mirrlees Blackstone site at Stockport. The Vulcan Foundry was finally demolished in 2006 and the site was levelled to give way to a proposed urban village. The bowling green at the north west corner of the site is all that remains.