Salwick railway station

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Salwick

Location

Place

Salwick

Local authority

Fylde

Coordinates

53°46′55″N 2°49′10″W / 53.7819, -2.8195Coordinates: 53°46′55″N 2°49′10″W / 53.7819, -2.8195

Operations

Managed by

Northern Rail

Platforms in use

Annual Rail Passenger Usage

2004/05 *

1,858

2005/06 *

2,186

History

1840

Opened

2 May 1938

Closed

8 April 1940

Reopened

National Rail - UK railway stations

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

UK Railways Portal

Salwick railway station is situated on the Preston-to-Blackpool railway line, 5¼ miles (8 km) west of Preston, and is managed by Northern Rail. The station lies between Preston and Kirkham, near the village of Clifton.

The station was closed on 2 May 1938 along with Lea Road railway station to the east, but was reopened on 8 April 1940 to serve the adjacent industrial complex (Biddle, 1989; Bairstow, 2001).

[edit] Services

Salwick is served by only three trains a day in each direction, but it is not a formal request stop; trains are timetabled to stop there (Network Rail, 2007). It is used by very few passengers (1,858 in 2004–5), but provides a commuter service for the workers at the nearby Springfields BNFL complex.

[edit] References

Bairstow, M. (2001) Railways of Blackpool and the Fylde, Martin Bairstow Publ., p. 37, ISBN 1-871944-23-6
Biddle, G. (1989) The Railways Around Preston - A Historical Review, Scenes from the Past: No. 6, Foxline Publishing, p. 56, ISBN 1-870119-05-3
Network Rail (2007) Current Timetables: Electronic National Rail Timetable (eNRT), Table 97, downloadable PDF file, 71.2 MB, accessed 23 April 2007
Taylor, S. (1997) Journeys by Excursion Train: Preston to Blackpool (Central), Scenes from the Past: No. 26, Part 3, Foxline Publishing, p. 44-45, ISBN 1-870119-51-7