Leyland railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Leyland
code = LEY

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caption = Leyland railway station in 1983
manager = Northern Rail
locale = Leyland
borough = South Ribble
platforms = 4
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usage0506 = 0.286
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Leyland railway station serves the town of Leyland in Lancashire, England. It was formerly "Golden Hill", the name of the street and area in which the station is based, but was re-named Leyland soon after opening. The original station was built in 1838, with two platforms.

The station is located on the West Coast Main Line, and is the approximate halfway point between Glasgow and London, some 198 miles in either direction, with a placard on Leyland Trucks' Spurrier works stating this fact.

The station is currently a four-platform hub, with a part-time ticket office. There are no clocks or display screens, and limited access for disabled people and prams. Former franchise holder First North Western ran Euston services from Blackpool which called at Leyland but these were soon discontinued. Leyland station is now very much a commuter station from and to Preston, with links to Chorley, Liverpool and Manchester, with no long distance main line services calling at the station.Transpennine express trains operate a service between Blackpool and Manchester Airport, which calls at Leyland once an hour Monday to Saturday. Most of the Manchester Airport services are stopping services although the last train of the day to Manchester calls at Manchester Piccadilly only.The Northern Rail services that serve the station mostly continue to Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester Piccadilly and Buxton southbound, and Preston and Blackpool North northbound, although some services continue beyond Manchester to Greenbank and Hazel Grove with one other starting from St Annes-on-the-Sea.

The station at Farington, Farington railway station was closed before the Beeching Plan of the 1960s and no direct trains run into Lostock Hall.

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