Kearsley railway station
Kearsley ![]() | |
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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* | |
2012/13 |
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2013/14 |
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2014/15 |
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2015/16 |
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2016/17 |
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Passenger Transport Executive | |
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 | 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 North Western and southbound to Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge throughout the day Mondays to Fridays.[4] Evening trains began stopping here at the May 2018 timetable change, but ongoing electrification work on the Manchester to Preston route has seen all weekend trains replaced by buses for most of 2017-18 (this is likely to continue until at least November 2018).
There is no Sunday service.
References
- ↑ Love 1839, p. 234
- ↑ Bradshaw's Railway Monthly
- ↑ Kearsley station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 9 December 2016
- ↑ Table 82 National Rail timetable, May 2018
Bibliography
- Love, Benjamin (1839), Manchester as it is, N/A
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kearsley railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Kearsley railway station from National Rail
Preceding station | ![]() |
Following station | ||
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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