Euxton Balshaw Lane railway station

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Euxton Balshaw Lane

Location

Place

Euxton

Local authority

Chorley

Operations

Station code

EBA

Managed by

Northern Rail

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

0.038 million

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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Euxton Balshaw Lane from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

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Euxton Balshaw Lane railway station reopened in 1998. The original Balshaw Lane station, had been closed in the 1960s Beeching review of the UK railway network. This station is the youngest Lancashire station.

Euxton (pronounced /ˈɛkstən/) 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. Euxton also had a station at the Royal Ordnance Factory site, ROF Chorley, on the Preston to Manchester line,which closed shortly after World War II.

The present 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 close to the site of the Royal Ordance station.^{[citation needed]}