Appley Bridge railway station

Appley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Appley Bridge in West Lancashire and Shevington in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester in England. The station is north-west of Wigan Wallgate on the Manchester-Southport Line. The station is in Lancashire, but is supported by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), and as such is within the TfGM ticketing zone. It is operated by Northern Trains.

The main stone-built station building survives adjacent to the Wigan-bound platform, but is now a public house; there are modest shelters on both platforms for rail travellers.

History The station opened on 9 April 1855 when the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) opened the line from to , the line and station had been planned, authorised and construction started by the Manchester and Southport Railway before it was acquired by the L&YR on 3 July 1854. The main stone-built station building (no longer in use) was built during this time, in the standard L&YR style which had been described as "solid, substantial, well built of stone in the Elizabethan style, neat without undue ornament". The L&YR amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922, and this, in turn, was grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Rail.

A Greater Manchester Council landfill site and transfer terminal was formerly located a short distance west of the station, served by a siding connection from the up (eastbound) line. This received regular trainloads of domestic waste from terminals in and around Manchester from the early 1980s until 1995, when the site reached capacity and was closed. The defunct siding is still intact and is visible from passing trains.

Facilities The station is unstaffed, but there is a ticket machine provided to allow passengers to buy prior to travel or collect pre-paid tickets. Train running information can be obtained by phone and timetable posters. There is step-free access to both platforms from the nearby road bridge via ramps.Appley Bridge station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 20 December 2016

Services On Monday to Saturday, there are two trains an hour westbound to Southport and eastbound to Wigan. Beyond here, services run via to either via Manchester Victoria or (services beyond there towards and points south ended at the winter 2022 timetable change).

On Sundays, there is an hourly service to Southport and Blackburn via and Manchester Victoria.

Appley Bridge railway station

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