BURY'S Bolton Street station is up for sale for just £200!

The railway station is one of the prize assets up for grabs in a recently launched Lancashire edition of Monopoly.

Bosses at the East Lancashire Railway (ELR) decided to stamp their identity on the county version of the best-selling board game by sponsoring a square on it.

The ELR is just one of many tourist attractions and landmarks that feature on the board, joining the likes of Blackpool Tower and Lancaster Castle.

Graham Vevers, director of the ELR, said: "Monopoly is an internationally known product and we thought it would be a good form of advertising."

"The fact that Bolton Street has joined the ranks of the London stations on the Monopoly board means that we get our name in front of the public." Although various regional editions of the best-selling board game, including a Manchester edition, have been launched, pre-Christmas sales of the Lancashire version showed it to be the most popular, according to the game's distributors.

And the ELR itself proved a December hit, with almost 18,000 passengers travelling on its "Santa Specials" over four weekends.

And for all you Monopoly fans out there, here are ten little-known facts about the game:

An unemployed man from Pennsylvania, USA, invented the game in 1934

It was banned in the former USSR for being too capitalist

The longest Monopoly game lasted 1,680 hours

The longest game in a bathtub was for 99 hours

Monopoly is published in 23 different languages

Astronauts have played it in space

Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis paid more than £1 million for a set made of gold

The "Great Train Robbers" played the game as they counted their booty

A total of 160 million copies of the game have been sold

"GO" has been passed around 12,800 million times by players.