NORTH UNION railway, a railway in Lancashire. It commences in a junction with the Liverpool and Manchester line at Parkside, and goes past Golborne, Wigan, Standish, and Coppul, to Preston; it includes the Wigan and Preston and the Bolton and Preston lines; and it was vested in 1846, at a fixed annuity of £66,064, in jointly the Lancashire and Yorkshire and the London and Northwestern. Its length is 39½ miles.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))