Newton-le-Willows Station (Newton-le-Willows)
Newton-le-Willows Station is the railway station that serves Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside.
Trains from Liverpool arrive by way of Huyton, Rainhill and St. Helens.
They continue to Eccles, Salford and Manchester.
A stone marks the spot where William Huskisson, President of the Board of Trade, was killed in 1830. He was a guest at the opening of one of the world`s earliest railways, the Liverpool to Manchester, and went over to speak to his friend the Duke of Wellington, but did not realise the danger posed by a moving train, and became the first fatality on a railway.