Place Eccles Station code ECC DfT category E | Grid reference SJ778988 Managed by Northern 2011/12 0.149 million Number of platforms 2 | |
 | ||
Address Eccles, Manchester M30 0DN, United Kingdom Original company Liverpool and Manchester Railway Pte Transport for Greater Manchester Similar Patricroft railway station, Harbour City tram stop, Anchorage tram stop, Salford Crescent railway st, Walkden railway station | ||
Eccles railway station and manchester metrolink featuring lms 5mt 44871
Eccles railway station serves the town of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. It was opened on 15 September 1830 by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M).
Contents
- Eccles railway station and manchester metrolink featuring lms 5mt 44871
- Lner a3 60103 4472 flying scotsman at eccles railway station
- Facilities
- Services
- References
The station is next to the M602 motorway and is a short distance from Eccles Interchange. A short freight-only branch line diverges from the main line here, which descends into the Manchester Ship Canal docks at Salford Quays to serve a Blue Circle cement terminal. The branch now occupies the former slow lines formation, as the L&M was formerly quadruple track from here to Manchester (the Manchester and Wigan Railway route to Tyldesley and Wigan North Western shared the tracks of the L&M to a point just west of the station here before diverging towards Worsley). The old slow line platforms can just be made out, though they are fenced off and heavily overgrown (the lines themselves were mostly lifted in the early 1970s, apart from the docks branch). The substantial street-level buildings built by the LNWR were also demolished in 1971, after being seriously damaged by fire.
Lner a3 60103 4472 flying scotsman at eccles railway station
Facilities
The station is staffed part-time, with a small ticket office (rebuilt in the summer of 2013) at street level. This is manned in the morning and early afternoon six days per week (06:25 to 12:55 weekdays, 07:25 to 13:55 Saturdays, closed Sundays). There are basic shelters, digital information screens and timetable poster boards on each platform, along with a P.A system to provide automated train running announcements (the information screens, CCTV cameras & P.A speakers were installed in September 2015). Step-free access isn't possible to either platform, as they can only reached by staircases from the road above.
Services
Monday to Saturdays there is generally an hourly service from Eccles to Manchester Victoria eastbound and Liverpool Lime Street westbound. Extra trains run at peak periods.
Sundays trains towards Manchester go to Manchester Airport via Manchester Piccadilly.
The station used to be served by North Wales services in the morning peak but this has now ceased. However, with the creation of the MediaCityUK complex in Salford Quays, a much more frequent pattern of services stopping at Eccles has now been reviewed. [1]