Adlington railway station (Lancashire)

Adlington (Lancashire) National Rail
Adlington railway station in 2009
Location
Place Adlington
Local authority Chorley
Grid reference SD602131
Operations
Station code ADL
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*
2012/13 Decrease 0.109 million
2013/14 Increase 0.110 million
2014/15 Increase 0.111 million
2015/16 Increase 0.116 million
2016/17 Increase 0.122 million
History
Key dates Opened 4 February 1841 (4 February 1841)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Adlington (Lancashire) from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Adlington railway station serves the town of Adlington, near Chorley in Lancashire, England. It is a two-platform station on the Chorley-Bolton line. This is part of the Northern service link between Preston and Manchester.

Until 1960 Adlington was also served by a station named White Bear (on the Lancashire Union Railway).

History

On 15 June 1837 by act of Parliament, the Bolton and Preston Railway Company constructed a link with the Manchester line comprising nine and a half miles of railway to a temporary terminus at Rawlinson Lane. By December 1841 the line had reached Chorley and Adlington station opened to take over from Rawlinson Bridge.

The line would pass into the hands London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Rail.

Facilities

The station has a staffed ticket office, open from start of service until 13:10 Mondays to Saturday. Outside these hours, tickets must be bought in advance or from the conductor on the train. A waiting room is available in the main building when the booking office is open and there are shelters on each platforms. Train running information is provided by timetable posters and telephone. There is step-free access to both platforms.[1]

Services

There is a basic hourly service in each direction (including evenings & Sundays) to Manchester Victoria southbound and to Buckshaw Parkway northbound.[2] Additional trains call during weekday peak periods, including through services to Preston and Blackpool North. Off-peak travellers for Preston and beyond must change trains at Buckshaw Parkway; through running (and regular weekend service) will resume when the delayed electrification work on the line is completed in 2019.

Following the May 2018 timetable change some stopping services will no longer call here, stopping at Chorley and carrying straight through to Blackrod. This means that there is a 2-hour gap between direct services to Manchester Victoria in the early morning.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Chorley   Northern
Manchester-Preston Line		   Blackrod

Renovation and Electrification

Work in August 2018 at Adlington Railway Station including electrification
Work in August 2018 at Adlington Railway Station including electrification
Work in August 2018 at Adlington Railway Station including electrification -general view

It was announced by the Department for Transport in December 2009, the line between Preston and Manchester, on which the station is situated, will be electrified  which should reduce journey times to Manchester by up to ten minutes [3]. There have been many delays but completion is expected before December 2018.

References

  1. ↑ Adlington (Lancs) station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 9 December 2016
  2. ↑ Table 82 National Rail timetable, May 2018
  3. ↑ Milmo, Dan (2009-12-09). "Rail electrification gets green light". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Station on navigable O.S. map

Coordinates: 53°36′47″N 2°36′11″W / 53.613°N 2.603°W / 53.613; -2.603

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