Leyland railway station

Leyland
Leyland railway station platforms 1 and 2 in 2007
Location
Place	Leyland
Local authority	South Ribble
Coordinates	53°41′56″N 2°41′13″W / 53.699°N 2.687°WCoordinates: 53°41′56″N 2°41′13″W / 53.699°N 2.687°W
Grid reference	SD547227
Operations
Station code	LEY
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	4
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.281 million
2005/06	0.286 million
2006/07	0.293 million
2007/08	0.326 million
2008/09	0.320 million
2009/10	0.328 million
2010/11	0.369 million
2011/12	0.401 million
2012/13	0.402 million
2013/14	0.400 million
2014/15	0.394 million
History
Original company	North Union Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
31 October 1838	Opened as Golden Hill[1]
1838	Renamed Leyland[1]
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Leyland from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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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 renamed Leyland soon after opening. The original station was built in 1838, with two platforms.

Station

The station is located on the West Coast Main Line just south of Preston, 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. In 2011 new display screens were installed as well as an automated ticket machine and a new ticket office was built in 2014, also a new pedestrian footbridge with lifts was built in 2016 bringing step-free access. 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, Wigan and Liverpool (after years of no "Southbound" services towards Wigan a 'local' service was resumed in 1988) and Manchester, with no long distance main line services calling at the station.

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

Services

The station is served primarily by Northern trains between Liverpool Lime Street and Preston (hourly each way) and between Manchester Victoria and Blackpool North & Hazel Grove and Blackpool North via Manchester Piccadilly (both hourly each way).^[2]

During the evenings and on Sundays there are hourly services to Manchester Victoria & Liverpool and two per hour to Preston and Blackpool North.

Limited First TransPennine Express services between Manchester Airport and Preston used to stop here but these no longer call here as of May 2012.

Gallery

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  The station in 1963

References

1. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 106. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
2. Table 82 & 90 National Rail timetable, May 2016

External links

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