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I remember in the sixties, the apex roof over the steps leading down to the platform was covered over and there was a ticket office and a cosy little waiting room. How many times I waited with my Mam and Dad on a sunny June morning for the train to Southport.

Baldylocks. In its heyday, many a Sunday School, Labour Club, British Legion, childrens' outing to Southport, went from this station, not to mention, also to Gathurst.

I remember a dad getting on the train here, a long time ago, with his three children, they were only going to Wigan. One of the children in his excitement shouted. "I hope its an express."

Another lonely place. Not too sure if it's used much these days. See Item number 18036.

Colin nothing on item 18086 ?

How do you search for item no's

Albert, what a lovely story!

Many men went to war from this station, those who never returned are honoured on the memorial on the parish church across the road.

Hello, Our Joseph! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours. x.

Joseph, I don't know whether Ince Station was the scene of large drafts of men being entrained to go to either WW1 or WW2, but the memorial on the wall of the nearby Christ Church is only for some of the fallen of WW2.
Unfortunately, it does not tell the whole story. It was erected too soon after the war, when the fate of men taken captive was still uncertain, others were still dying of wounds, and some families had still not heard what had happened to their menfolk. Thus it did not record all the fallen of Ince. An attempt was made in the early years of this century to rectify this, but only a few more names were added on the replacement memorial which you see now. I reckoned at the time a few dozen should have been added, but the project went ahead regardless. The result is that Ince does not have a proper, comprehensive memorial for the fallen of WW2.
I've never understood why the pattern adopted by most communities wasn't followed in Ince - there would have been no problem incorporating the names of the WW2 casualties on the existing WW1 Memorial in Lower Ince Cemetery.
Perhaps Higher/ Lower Ince politics or rivalries were involved.

Reverend, you are quite correct the station wasn't the scene of large drafts but during the Great war the men of Ince travelled to Bolton to enlist from the station as did my great uncles and their pals who's names are on the WW1 Memorial in Lower Ince Cemetery. My own fathers relations did the very same during WWII they fell in various campaigns, my dad had been in the army several years before war started and did almost thirty years serving his country. I did not intend to make it sound like Ince station was the scene of mass deployment for men, I do however have knowledge of many men going to war from this station and not returning and it was just my way of acknowledging that fact.

Thank you so much Our Irene, may you have a good and peaceful Christmas with your family and I hope the New Year is kind to you also, God Bless.

Seasons Greeting to all the folk on WW from me and mine.

Peace and love, Joseph!

I know I'm talking about the other Ince Station here but Albert's story put me in mind of my grandma Cain telling her nephew Benny Langford on the footplate, not to let the train to Irlam go too fast, as if the timetable didn't come into it.

How shameful there isn't a comprehensive memorial to the ww2 fallen in Ince , personally I think the memorial should never have been removed from the village green at Ince bar and the ww2 names added to it! There are memorial parks all over the commonwealth dedicated to those who gave everything , why not in Ince ? ( rant over)

Ince station is used a lot, Colin. More than ever since the daytime service was reinstated. You can even catch a train to Huddersfield from Ince. As to why...is anyone's guess!

Thank you Karen, it's nice to know the trains still stop and pick-up passengers at Ince.

Even the lamp is taped up,come on network rail tu tu.

i remember my mum telling me, years ago now, when she was a red cross nurse, she and other nurses waited on ince station to care for and collect thw wounded coming back from ww11. also my great grandad, samuel lees, dropped dead on ince station 24 jan. 1925