The Kirkby Branch Line is a railway line in England running from Wigan in Greater Manchester to Kirkby in Merseyside. Now a partly single-track route with an hourly diesel service operated by Northern Rail the line was once part of a mainline route from Manchester to Liverpool operated by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and had several branch lines of its own until the 1960s.
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