Kearsley railway station

"Ringley railway station" redirects here. For the closed station near Bury, Greater Manchester, see Ringley Road railway station.

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General information
Location	Bolton
Managed by	Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KSL
History
Original company	Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
29 May 1838 (1838-05-29)	Station opened as Ringley
1838	Renamed Stoneclough
7 February 1894	Renamed Kearsley and Stoneclough
February 1903	Renamed Kearsley

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 7+3⁄4 miles (12.5 km) north of Manchester Victoria, though only local services run by Northern 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.

Facilities

The station is unmanned and has no ticketing facilities, so passengers must purchase tickets prior to travel on the train. There are simple waiting shelters on each platform, with train running information provided by telephone and timetable posters. No step-free access is available to either platform.

Services

There is an hourly service northbound to Wigan North Western and southbound to Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge throughout the day Mondays to Fridays. Evening trains began stopping here at the May 2018 timetable change, but ongoing electrification work on the Manchester to Preston route has seen all weekend trains replaced by buses for most of 2017-18 (this is likely to continue until at least November 2018).

There is no Sunday service.

References

Bibliography

• Love, Benjamin (1839), Manchester as it is, N/A

External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Farnworth		Northern 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