Kearsley railway station

Kearsley National Rail
Location
Place Kearsley
Local authority Bolton
Grid reference SD752054
Operations
Station code KSL
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12 Increase 35,164
2012/13 Increase 37,778
2013/14 Increase 43,724
2014/15 Decrease 41,752
2015/16 Decrease 15,512
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PTE Greater Manchester
History
Original company Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway
Pre-grouping Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
29 May 1838 (1838-05-29) Station opened as Ringley
1838 Renamed Stoneclough
7 February 1894 Renamed Kearsley and Stoneclough
February 1903 Renamed Kearsley
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kearsley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Kearsley railway station serves the Greater Manchester town of Kearsley and the villages of Stoneclough, Prestolee and Ringley, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in North West England. It was originally named Stoneclough.[1][2]

It lies on the Manchester-Preston Line 7 3⁄4 miles (12.5 km) north of Manchester Victoria, though only local services run by Northern stop here.

The station was staffed until the early 1990s, however the arson attacking of the station building just below platform level saw an end to this arrangement. In the spring of 2015, the station's pedestrian rail crossing was replaced by a footbridge and the platforms rebuilt as part of modernisation work to electrify the line and raise line speeds to 100 mph.

Facilities

The station is unmanned and has no ticketing facilities, so passengers must purchase tickets prior to travel on the train. There are simple waiting shelters on each platform, with train running information provided by telephone and timetable posters. No step-free access is available to either platform.[3]

Services

There is an hourly service northbound to Wigan Wallgate and southbound to Manchester Victoria until early evening (the last departures are just after 18:45 each way). A very limited number of trains originate or terminate at Wigan North Western during peak periods. The only service which runs after this time is the 23:08 to Bolton and Wigan Wallgate (Fridays and Saturdays only in the spring 2017 timetable, replacement bus Mon-Thurs).[4]

As of September 2015, the service from here and the three other stations on this stretch was suspended due to the ongoing modernisation work here and at Farnworth Tunnel, which is being widened and raised to accommodate the overhead wires. Buses were provided until the work was completed in December 2015, with the station reopening on schedule on 14 December.

There is no Sunday service.

References

  1. ↑ Love 1839, p. 234
  2. ↑ Bradshaw's Railway Monthly
  3. ↑ Kearsley station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 9 December 2016
  4. ↑ Table 82 National Rail timetable, May 2017

Bibliography

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Farnworth   Northern
Manchester-Southport Line		   Clifton or
Salford Crescent
Historical railways
Farnworth
Line and station open		   Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Manchester and Bolton Railway		   Dixon Fold
Line open, station closed

Coordinates: 53°32′41″N 2°22′32″W / 53.5446°N 2.3755°W / 53.5446; -2.3755


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