Bromley Cross railway station (including signal box and low level platform) is a Grade II listed building in the Bolton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 2015. Railway station. 2 related planning applications.

Bromley Cross railway station (including signal box and low level platform)

WRENN ID
under-hall-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bolton
Constituency
Bolton North East MP: Kirith Entwistle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 April 2015
Type
Railway station
Address
Bromley Cross railway station (including signal box and low level platform), Chapeltown Road, BL7 9AG
OS grid reference
SD 729 131
Coordinates
53.61405, -2.41066
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bromley Cross railway station is a mid-19th century station complex built for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The main station building dates from 1859, with a signal box added in 1875.

The station building is constructed from local rough-tooled sandstone with smooth-tooled stone dressings, beneath a Welsh slate roof. It sits on the eastern side of the railway on a low platform at the northern end of the standard platform. The building is single storey with coped gables and mullioned windows featuring straight chamfered surrounds to openings. Simple block corbels support the gutters in pairs.

The interior is divided into three sections. The large central room was originally the public booking hall, now functioning as a behind-the-counter booking office. It is lit by a three-light window facing the tracks and two single windows to the rear, and retains some timber planked panelling on the walls. The station clock, a wall-mounted long case weight-driven pendulum clock with a second face on the outside of the wall facing the tracks, remains in this room. To the north is the former ticket office, now front-of-counter, accessible via a doorway with large overlight facing the platform. This room retains evidence of a corner set fireplace to the rear, now blocked with the chimney truncated. To the south is the former ladies waiting room with a separate platform entrance, a single window to the front and a two-light window to the rear, served by a fireplace with a ridge stack that also heated the central hall. Attached to the south is a modern waiting room created from the conversion of the original roofless gentleman's toilet, with a matching doorway and two-light window.

The signal box is built to the Yardley Smith Type 1 design, comprising two storeys with a low-pitched hipped roof and projecting centrally-placed rear chimney stack that survives to full height. The operating floor retains part of a 1902 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway lever frame, originally containing 28 levers with framing for 12 levers surviving and 9 levers remaining.

The listing includes the short section of low level platform upon which the booking office and signal box are built.

Local climate

Bromley Cross railway station (including signal box and low level platform) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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