Eccles railway station

Not to be confused with Eccles Interchange.
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*
2010/11 Increase 0.122 million
2011/12 Increase 0.149 million
2012/13 Decrease 0.148 million
2013/14 Increase 0.159 million
2014/15 Decrease 0.138 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).

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 Manchester Victoria eastbound and Liverpool Lime Street westbound. Extra trains run at peak periods.[2]

Sundays trains towards Manchester go to Manchester Airport via Manchester Piccadilly

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. ↑ Table 90 National Rail timetable, May 2016
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eccles railway station.
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Patricroft
Newton-le- Willows on Sundays		   Northern
Liverpool to Manchester Line
(Northern Route)		   Manchester Victoria
or
Manchester Oxford Road
(Sundays)
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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