Kearsley railway station

Kearsley
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Location
Place	Kearsley
Local authority	Bolton
Grid reference	SD752054
Operations
Station code	KSL
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	14,774
2005/06	16,187
2006/07	21,987
2007/08	26,042
2008/09	28,702
2009/10	32,492
2010/11	31,736
2011/12	35,164
2012/13	37,778
2013/14	43,724
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Greater Manchester
History
Original company	Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
29 May 1838 (1838-05-29)	Station opened as Ringley
1838	Renamed Stoneclough
7 February 1894	Renamed Kearsley and Stoneclough
February 1903	Renamed Kearsley
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Kearsley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Kearsley railway station serves the Greater Manchester town of Kearsley and the villages of Stoneclough, Prestolee and Ringley, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in North West England. It was originally named Stoneclough.

It lies on the Manchester-Preston Line, though only local services run by Northern Rail stop here.

The station was staffed until the early 1990s, however the arson attacking of the station building just below platform level saw an end to this arrangement. In the spring of 2015, the station's pedestrian rail crossing was replaced by a footbridge and the platforms rebuilt as part of modernisation work to electrify the line and raise line speeds to 100 mph.

Services

There is an hourly service northbound to Wigan Wallgate and southbound to Manchester Victoria until early evening (the last departures are just after 18:45 each way). The only service which runs after this time is the 23:11 to Bolton and Wigan Wallgate. As of September 2015, the service from here and the three other stations on this stretch was suspended due to the ongoing modernisation work here and at Farnworth Tunnel, which is being widened and raised to accommodate the overhead wires. Buses were provided until the work was completed in December 2015, with the station reopening on schedule on 14 December.

There is no Sunday service.

External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Farnworth		Northern Rail Manchester-Southport Line		Clifton or Salford Crescent
	Historical railways
Farnworth Line and station open		Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Manchester and Bolton Railway		Dixon Fold Line open, station closed