Euxton Balshaw Lane railway station

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Location
Euxton Balshaw Lane
Place	Euxton
Local authority	Chorley Borough Council
Operations
Station code	EBA
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	1998
Annual entry/exit 04/05	0.038 million **
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The station at Euxton Balshaw Lane returned to the national rail map in 1998. The original Balshaw Lane station, and its "sister station" at the Royal Ordnance Factory Site, ROF Chorley, had been closed in the 1960s Beeching review of the UK Railway Network. This station is the youngest Lancashire station.

Euxton - pronounced "Ex-ton", it does not rhyme with "Buxton" - is a compact village with the towns of Leyland to the north and Chorley to the south. It is situated in the Borough of Chorley.

The station has two platforms on the slower north/south lines of the West Coast Main Line and is served by the Northern Rail company with trains to Blackpool North and Liverpool. Euxton Balshaw Lane does not have any full-time staff or ticket office, nor, unlike the recently opened Horwich Parkway railway station, any clocks or display screens.

When the nearby Buckshaw Village development is nearer completion, it is widely understood that a new station will be built there. This will give Euxton the second station it lost during the Beeching review.