Eccles railway station

Not to be confused with Eccles Metrolink station.

Eccles
265px Eccles railway station in 2014.
Location
Place	Eccles
Local authority	Salford
Coordinates
Grid reference	SJ778988
Operations
Station code	ECC
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.122 million
2011/12	0.149 million
2012/13	0.148 million
2013/14	0.159 million
2014/15	0.138 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Greater Manchester
History
Original company	Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
15 September 1830 (1830-09-15)	Station opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Eccles from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

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).

The station is next to the M602 motorway and is 440 yards (400 m) away from the Eccles Metrolink station. 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).

Services

File:Bromshall, Clifton (Molyneux), Hay, Liskeard, Patricroft & Uttoxeter RJD 148.jpg

A 1905 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (upper right) railways in the vicinity of Eccles

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]

See also

• Eccles rail crash (1941) at the east end of the station in which 23 people were killed.
• Eccles rail crash (1984)

External links

• Train times and station information for Eccles railway station from National Rail
• Since 2005 the Friends of Eccles Station (FRECCLES) have adopted the station to help improve the environment and lobby for better passenger services.
• For a brief video history about the station [2]

Salford Lines
Legend
Past, present and future  to Wigan Wallgate to Bolton Great Moor Street to Wigan North Western x20px Little Hulton Ellenbrook Walkden Low Level Walkden High Level to Lime Street Moorside |to Bolton Barton Moss | Worsley Swinton | Dixon Fold Patricroft | Monton Green Pendlebury |to Bury Irlams-o'-th'-Height Eccles | Eccles Clifton Junction Ladywell Agecroft Bridge Weaste | Weaste Brindle Heath Jct | Agecroft Jct Langworthy | Seedley Pendleton Bridge Broadway Cross Lane | Pendleton MediaCityUK Harbour City Salford Crescent Anchorage Salford Docks Salford Quays x20px x20px Windsor Link Exchange Quay Ordsall Lane | Oldfield Road to Manchester (Metrolink) Ordsall Chord(under construction) Salford Central to Manchester (Deansgate) to Manchester (Victoria)

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Patricroft Newton-le- Willows on Sundays		Northern Electrics Liverpool to Manchester Line (Northern Route)		Manchester Victoria or Manchester Oxford Road (Sundays)
	Historical railways
Patricroft Line and station open		London and North Western Railway		Weaste Line open, station closed
	Disused railways
Monton Green		LNW		Weaste