Eccles railway station

Eccles National Rail
Eccles railway station in 2014.
Location
Place Eccles
Local authority Salford
Coordinates 53°29′06″N 2°20′06″W / 53.485°N 2.335°W / 53.485; -2.335Coordinates: 53°29′06″N 2°20′06″W / 53.485°N 2.335°W / 53.485; -2.335
Grid reference SJ778988
Operations
Station code ECC
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Decrease 0.148 million
2013/14 Increase 0.159 million
2014/15 Decrease 0.138 million
2015/16 Increase 0.161 million
2016/17 Increase 0.191 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Greater Manchester
History
Original company Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
15 September 1830 (1830-09-15) Station opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Eccles from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Eccles railway station serves the town of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. It was opened on 15 September 1830 by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M).[1]

The station is next to the M602 motorway and is a short distance from 'Eccles Interchange. A short freight-only branch line diverges from the main line here, which descends into the Manchester Ship Canal docks at Salford Quays to serve a Blue Circle cement terminal. The branch now occupies the former slow lines formation, as the L&M was formerly quadruple track from here to Manchester (the Manchester and Wigan Railway route to Tyldesley and Wigan North Western shared the tracks of the L&M to a point just west of the station here before diverging towards Worsley). The old slow line platforms can just be made out, though they are fenced off and heavily overgrown (the lines themselves were mostly lifted in the early 1970s, apart from the docks branch). The substantial street-level buildings built by the London & North Western Railway were also demolished in 1971, after being seriously damaged by fire.[2]

Facilities

The station is staffed part-time, with a small ticket office (rebuilt in the summer of 2013) at street level. This is manned in the morning and early afternoon six days per week (06:25 to 12:55 weekdays, 07:25 to 13:55 Saturdays, closed Sundays). There are basic shelters, digital information screens and timetable poster boards on each platform, along with a P.A system to provide automated train running announcements (the information screens, CCTV cameras & P.A speakers were installed in September 2015).[3] Step-free access isn't possible to either platform, as they can only reached by staircases from the road above.[4]

Services

A 1905 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (upper right) railways in the vicinity of Eccles

Monday to Saturdays there is generally an hourly service from Eccles to Crewe via Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport eastbound and Liverpool Lime Street westbound. Extra trains run at peak periods, with a handful of services to/from Manchester Victoria.[5]

On Sundays, the service runs between Liverpool Lime Street and Wilmslow via Manchester Piccadilly and the Airport, though whilst Lime Street station was closed for remodelling in June and July 2018 a temporary timetable was in operation (with trains running between Huyton and Victoria only in the evening and at weekends).

The station used to be served by North Wales services in the morning peak but this has now ceased. However, with the creation of the MediaCityUK complex in Salford Quays, a much more frequent pattern of services stopping at Eccles has now been reviewed.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 89. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
  2. ↑ "Eccles Station Heritage" Freccles website article; Retrieved 22 December 2016
  3. ↑ '"Eccles station news" Friends of Eccles Station news article; Retrieved 22 December 2016
  4. ↑ Eccles station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 22 December 2016
  5. ↑ Table 90 National Rail timetable, May 2018
  • Train times and station information for Eccles railway station from National Rail
  • Since 2005 the Friends of Eccles Station (FRECCLES) have adopted the station to help improve the environment and lobby for better passenger services.
  • For a brief video history about the station

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Patricroft   Northern
Liverpool to Manchester Line
(Northern Route)		   Deansgate
or
Manchester Victoria
  Historical railways  
Patricroft
Line and station open		   London and North Western Railway   Weaste
Line open, station closed
Disused railways
Monton Green   LNW   Weaste
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