Walkden railway station

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Walkden National Rail
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Location
Place Walkden
Local authority Salford
Grid reference SD738026
Operations
Station code WKD
Managed by Northern Rail
Number of platforms 2
DfT category E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05   0.129 million
2005/06 Increase 0.151 million
2006/07 Increase 0.157 million
2007/08 Increase 0.162 million
2008/09 Increase 0.229 million
2009/10 Increase 0.239 million
2010/11 Increase 0.266 million
2011/12 Increase 0.305 million
2012/13 Increase 0.323 million
2013/14 Decrease 0.316 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Greater Manchester
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 estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Walkden from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Walkden railway station is one of the principal stations that lie on the Manchester to Southport Line in England. The station is located Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). west of Manchester with regular Northern Rail services to these towns as well as Salford, Swinton and Hindley. It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

One of the more popular stations on the line (according to Strategic Rail Authority figures), the station used to be known as Walkden High Level to differentiate it from the London and North Western Railway's Walkden Low Level railway station (on the line from Manchester Exchange to Bolton Great Moor Street, which was closed to passengers in 1954).[1] Latest figures indicate that over 300,000 passengers use the station annually.[2] In February 2007 the Friends of Walkden Station community volunteer group was founded to campaign for improvements to the station's facilities and services.
One of the line's two remaining signal boxes was formerly located here (it acted as the 'fringe' box to Manchester Picadilly signalling centre), but it and neighbouring Atherton Goods Yard box were both closed in the spring of 2013 and their semaphore signals replaced by colour lights worked from Piccadilly SCC.

Service

The entrance to Walkden railway station

Monday to Saturday daytimes, two trains per hour go southbound to Manchester Victoria and two per hour towards Wigan Wallgate (hourly onwards to Southport and Kirkby respectively) northbound.

In the evenings there is an hourly service in each direction to Manchester Victoria and Wigan.

A normal Saturday service or modified Monday to Friday service operates on most Bank Holidays

On 18 December 2009 the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) voted to approve funding for a one-year trial of Sunday trains from Walkden, starting on 23 May 2010.[3] The Sunday service consists of hourly trains in each direction. The trial was judged successful and as of August 2013, the service continues to operate.[4]

References

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  4. ↑ Northern Rail Timetable 14 Manchester to Southport 19 May - 6 October 2013 northernrail.org; Retrieved 2013-08-28


External links

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Atherton   Northern Rail
Manchester-Southport Line or
Manchester-Kirkby		   Swinton or
Moorside

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