Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
Possibly a solution for those rural basket-cases would be to select one (probably the one in the middle) to retain and upgrade as a "mini-parkway" to serve the villages and hamlets that currently each have their own station for some reason.
Burscough Bridge is in easy reach from New Lane, and Bescar Lane to Meols Cop isn't too bad a drive either (though it has no car park I suspect the level of demand won't exactly tax the streets around it). And as it's the flat as a pancake (Dutch style) West Lancashire plain, a bicycle would be just as good too.
(And before anyone shouts "Southerner" and proposes closure of Bletchley, I am very familiar with the West Lancashire area having lived in it from age 7 to 18, and most of my immediate family still lives there).