Appley Bridge railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Appley Bridge


code = APB
manager = Northern Rail
locale = Appley Bridge
borough = Wigan
usage0405 = 0.146
usage0506 = 0.172
usage0607 = 0.174
platforms = 2
pte = Greater Manchester
zone =
years = 9 April 1855
events = Station opens

Appley Bridge railway station serves the Lancashire villages of Appley Bridge and Shevington in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom.

The station is 4½ miles (7 km) north west of Wigan Wallgate on the Manchester-Southport Line.

The station itself is in the Lancashire side of the village, but it is supported by the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and as such within the GMPTE ticketing zone.

Appley Bridge railway station was built by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and opened on 9 April 1855. The main stone-built station building survives adjacent to the Wigan-bound platform, but is now in use for non-railway purposes (as a public house), modest shelters now being provided on both platforms for rail travellers.

History

Opened by the Manchester and Southport Railway as a branch of the East Lancashire Railway, it was absorbed by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948,

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980's, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.

ervices

Monday to Saturday daytimes, there are two trains an hour to Southport westbound and to Wigan and Manchester eastbound (One per hour to Manchester Airport via Bolton, Salford Crescent and Manchester Piccadilly, and one to Rochdale and Shaw via Atherton, Salford Crescent and Manchester Victoria).

Evenings and Sundays there is an hourly service to Southport and to Manchester Airport (extended to Alderley Edge Sundays).

External links

rail line
next=Parbold
previous=Wigan Wallgate
route=Northern Rail
Manchester Airport-Southport
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