Station code LEY DfT category D Number of platforms 4 | Grid reference SD547227 Managed by Northern 2011/12 0.401 million | |
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Similar Croston railway station, Bamber Bridge railway st, Blackburn railway station, Cherry Tree railway st, Mill Hill (Lancashire) railway st | ||
Leyland railway station featuring lms 5mt 45407 and 44871
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.
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- Station
- Services
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Leyland railway station 26 04 2012
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 (manned 06:45-17:45 Mondays to Saturdays and 08:15-15:45 Sundays). In 2011 new digital 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 to all four platforms.
Former franchise holder First North Western ran Euston services from Blackpool which called at Leyland in the late 1990s but these were soon discontinued. Leyland station is now very much a commuter station from and to Preston, with links to Chorley, Wigan, 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, between Manchester Victoria and Blackpool North, and between Hazel Grove and Blackpool North via Manchester Piccadilly, all hourly each way.
During the evenings and on Sundays there are hourly services to Manchester Victoria and Liverpool, and two per hour to Preston and Blackpool North.
Limited First TransPennine Express services between Manchester Airport and Preston served Leyland until May 2012.