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Saturday daytimes, this is the regular service pattern, however due to the Preston to Manchester electrification works during the 2015 summer timetable, there was an
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Farnworth Tunnel blockade. There are 3 tph via Bolton toward Manchester (2 to Victoria and 1 to Manchester Airport via Piccadilly) and 2tph via Walkden (both to Victoria). One of the former continues to
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Changes instituted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic since the spring of 2020 have seen the timetable altered once again, with the Calder Valley service from Leeds via
Dewsbury and Walkden routed back to nearby North Western through the day. Just a small number of peak period services on this
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Atherton line, this changed in May 2010 when a 12-month trial of an hourly Sunday service began between Wallgate and Manchester Victoria via Atherton (after Greater Manchester PTA agreed a funding package with train operator Northern Rail in December
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Blackburn. Two per hour run westwards to Southport and one to Kirkby, whilst two others terminate here. In the evenings there are hourly services to the Airport via Bolton, to Southport and to Victoria via Atherton. The Sunday service pattern is broadly similar, but trains to Piccadilly run
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Corporation regarding the standard of its station and poor facilities, this led to it being replaced by the current station which opened on 2 February 1896. The new station partially overlapped the previous one but had new buildings facing
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The ticket office is staffed from 06:00 to 21:00 Monday to
Saturday and from 08:00 to 20:00 on Sundays. Automated ticket barriers are in operation. Train running information is provided via digital display screens, timetable posters and automated announcements. Toilets and a waiting room are
859:. The diesel trains from Wigan were scheduled to meet an electric train from Liverpool at Kirkby and passengers transfer along the same platform to complete their journeys. This arrangement continued at Kirkby until October 2023 when the electrification scheme was extended to a new
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Wallgate had closed in April 1964 and the sidings converted for stabling of DMUs. The 1965 British Rail (London Midland) timetable still shows express trains (Liverpool Exchange to Yorkshire and beyond) using or bypassing Wigan Wallgate.
563:. Platforms are below street level and reached via a flight of stairs from the street level concourse which contains a ticket office and a newsagent. However, a goods lift has been modified for passenger use to ensure step-free access to the platform.
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station. Its possible location can be seen, although unmarked, on the 1849 OS six-inch map immediately to the south-west of the line and east of
Wallgate (the road). This station was described by the press at the time as a 'hovel'.
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A major refurbishment of infrastructure was completed in
October 2004. The £12 million project involved a complete renewal of the track and signalling at Wallgate station and the adjacent carriage sidings. The
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The line from Bolton to Rochdale via Bury was closed on 5 October 1970. Trains from Liverpool now generally terminated at Bolton. Southport trains provided the main service to and from Manchester Victoria.
818:'s trains from Wigan Wallgate was reduced. Services operated at irregular intervals, those from the Liverpool line ran only as far as Wigan or Bolton and there were no off-peak trains on the Atherton line.
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The timetable underwent a further major change with the summer 2018 version introduced on 20 May. Trains via Bolton from here have been withdrawn (save for a very limited morning weekday peak service to
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route serve Wallgate in the weekday peaks. There is still an hourly service to/from Blackburn via Todmorden (continuing through to Kirkby in the daytime) from here during the day and in the evening.
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amended timetable throughout this period. There were no train services between Bolton and any Manchester station on Saturdays and Sundays between 2 May to 13 December, trains were routed via Walkden.
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running to Knowsley Freight Terminal on the Kirkby line - these were suspended from 2006 onwards. Most freight services through Wigan run through nearby
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1983:. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications.
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677:via Boar's Head, which shared the same route from
835:The trains to Liverpool (which had terminated at
814:During the early and mid-1970s, the frequency of
3170:Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848
3165:Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations
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600:The newly constructed platform buildings in 1979
1933:. Vol. 3. Wild Swan Publications Limited.
811:for the short trip into Liverpool city centre.
1075:There is no Headbolt Lane service on Sundays.
930:All three platforms in the Southport direction
640:London & North Western Railway (L&NWR)
23:Railway station in Greater Manchester, England
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1908:Electric Railways of Liverpool and Manchester
953:All passenger train services are provided by
916:Platforms 1 and 2 in the Manchester direction
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1820:(Press release). 5 July 2016. Archived from
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863:station where the arrangement was repeated.
873:, this enabled trains from Wigan to access
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1948:Holt, Geoffrey O.; Biddle, Gordon (1986).
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684:On 1 October 1888, the L&YR line from
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2107:for Wigan Wallgate railway station from
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1881:Liverpool & Manchester Railway Atlas
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1814:"Knowsley Rail Freight Terminal Reopens"
1632:. No. 1046. June 1988. p. 350.
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1317:(Map). Six-inch. Ordnance Survey. 1849.
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2084:Railway & Canal Historical Society
2052:The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway
2026:The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway
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1980:Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991
1925:Hawkins, Chris; Reeve, George (1982).
1499:(Map). 25 inch. Ordnance Survey. 1908.
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1512:, p. 15 (refs 0725 & 0726).
1261:from the original on 3 December 2016
1092:onward to Stockport, then either to
3175:Northern franchise railway stations
1743:"New Sunday services for rail line"
18:Wigan North Western railway station
13:
671:London & North Western Railway
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194:Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway
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3180:Buildings and structures in Wigan
2992:Manchester United Football Ground
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1628:"Bridge completes Windsor Link".
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543:Wigan's other main station is
536:). The station is managed by
499:Wigan Wallgate railway station
484:Passenger statistics from the
1:
2054:. Vol. 2. Newton Abbot:
2028:. Vol. 1. Newton Abbot:
1856:. Midhurst: Middleton Press.
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1229:"Train Companies & Maps"
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871:Windsor Link Line in Salford
55:The station frontage in 2013
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505:serving the town centre of
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1379:: CS1 maint: postscript (
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611:Lines around Wigan in 1907
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1977:Hurst, Geoffrey (1992).
1906:Gleaves, Graeme (2015).
1548:, p. 62 (ref 2791).
1536:, p. 60 (ref 2655).
1522:Hawkins & Reeve 1982
1233:National Rail Enquirires
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1037:2 trains per hour (tph)
739:directly onto Wallgate.
249:Final station opened as
3160:DfT Category D stations
3114:List of closed stations
3099:East Lancashire Railway
1255:National Rail Enquiries
1068:1 train per hour (tph)
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762:1955 Modernisation Plan
760:Following the railways
486:Office of Rail and Road
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1352:Holt & Biddle 1986
1314:Lancashire Sheet XCIII
1251:"Wigan Wallgate (WGW)"
987:Manchester Oxford Road
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875:Manchester Oxford Road
822:Greater Manchester PTE
681:onwards to Blackburn.
615:There have been three
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3107:List of open stations
2546:Manchester Piccadilly
2495:Deansgate-Castlefield
1140:(the latter pair via
1118:Manchester Piccadilly
947:British Rail Class 37
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879:Manchester Piccadilly
772:The direct line from
725:Bolton Trinity Street
710:Liverpool Lime Street
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234:Second station opened
1998:Pixton, Bob (2008).
1630:The Railway Magazine
1239:on 26 December 2007.
1176:West Coast Main Line
981:Monday to Saturday:
226:First station opened
3070:Wigan North Western
2558:Manchester Victoria
2242:(Monday - Saturday)
2204:(Monday - Saturday)
2164:(Monday - Saturday)
2105:station information
2056:David & Charles
2030:David & Charles
1879:Brown, Joe (2021).
1773:timetable, May 2018
1172:Wigan North Western
1126:Wigan North Western
1104:(alternate hours).
1064:Manchester Victoria
1033:Manchester Victoria
1019:Manchester Victoria
1005:Manchester Victoria
941:A 1993 loco-hauled
847:) were cut back to
824:. GMPTE subsidised
752:Wigan North Western
706:Manchester Exchange
698:Manchester Victoria
694:Manchester Victoria
545:Wigan North Western
527:Manchester Victoria
521:and the Manchester-
99: /
61:General information
2518:Manchester Airport
2413:Bury Bolton Street
2324:Greater Manchester
2136:Following station
2117:Preceding station
1751:. 20 December 2009
1678:on 29 October 2015
1496:Lancashire XCIII.8
1396:Lancashire XCIII.8
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789:Liverpool Exchange
702:Liverpool Exchange
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511:Greater Manchester
147:Greater Manchester
103:53.5449°N 2.6339°W
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2065:978-0-7153-4906-9
2039:978-0-7153-4352-4
2013:978-1-905505-07-4
1961:978-0-946537-34-1
1940:978-0-906867-07-5
1917:978-1-4456-3989-5
1863:978-1-908174-11-6
1824:on 20 August 2016
1654:on 21 April 2013.
1648:Northern Railways
1484:, tables 496–497.
1460:, pp. 96–97.
1182:6 days per week.
1149:Arriva Rail North
943:Regional Railways
845:Liverpool Central
797:Liverpool Central
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