Glazebrook railway station

Glazebrook
Location
Place	Glazebrook
Local authority	Warrington
Coordinates	53°25′42″N 2°27′35″W / 53.4282°N 2.4598°WCoordinates: 53°25′42″N 2°27′35″W / 53.4282°N 2.4598°W
Grid reference	SJ694924
Operations
Station code	GLZ
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*
2004/05	28,462
2005/06	30,750
2006/07	33,378
2007/08	34,593
2008/09	42,604
2009/10	41,226
2010/11	47,360
2011/12	47,526
2012/13	49,524
2013/14	54,548
2014/15	49,442
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Greater Manchester
History
Key dates	Opened 1873
Original company	Cheshire Lines Committee
Pre-grouping	CLC
Post-grouping	CLC
2 September 1873	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 Glazebrook from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Glazebrook railway station is in the Warrington unitary authority in the north west of England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern. The station is 9.9 miles (16 km) west of Manchester Oxford Road on the Manchester to Liverpool Line.

History

Lines around Glazebrook & Partington in 1907.

Glazebrook station was formerly located between two junctions, Glazebrook West for the Wigan Junction Railways to Wigan Central and St Helens Central, services to those stations ceasing in 1964 and 1952 respectively;^[1] and Glazebrook East Junction for the line to Stockport Tiviot Dale via Skelton Junction, passenger services to there ceased in 1964. West of Glazebrook there is the only passing loop east of Warrington, though this is rarely used.

The station building, opened on 2 September 1873,^[2] is of typical Cheshire Lines Committee design. The ticket office is open weekday mornings only. Although this station is not within the Greater Manchester area, it does mark the western boundary of the range of rail tickets produced by Transport for Greater Manchester.

Services

Daytime services are roughly two hourly towards Birchwood and Liverpool Lime Street and two hourly towards Irlam and Manchester Oxford Road. Against the trend, evening services are in fact more frequent than during the day (roughly hourly, though most services run to/from Warrington Central only).^[3] There are additional peak services but no Sunday services (nearest stations with Sunday services are Irlam or Birchwood).

A summary of services is:

• 12 services towards Manchester Oxford Road (normally on the xx:08 of even hours), calling:

Irlam, Flixton, Chassen Road, Urmston, Manchester Deansgate and Manchester Oxford Road

• 10 services towards Liverpool Lime Street (normally on the xx:33 of even hours), calling:

Birchwood, Padgate, Warrington Central, Widnes, Hough Green, Liverpool South Parkway, Mossley Hill and Liverpool Lime Street

• 3 services towards Warrington Central (19:06, 21:06 and 22:06), calling:

Birchwood, Padgate and Warrington Central

Gallery

• 
  Down goods train on Cheshire Lines at Glazebrook in 1957.

See also

• Listed buildings in Rixton-with-Glazebrook

References

1. Sweeney 2013, pp. 15–19
2. Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 104. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
3. Northern Rail Timetable 16

Sources

• Sweeney, Dennis J (2013). The Wigan Junction Railways. Leigh: Triangle Publishing. ISBN 978-09550030-5-9.

External links

• Train times and station information for Glazebrook railway station from National Rail