Walkden Railway Station

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Walkden railway station is one of the principal stations that lie on the Manchester to Southport Line in England. The station is located 8 1⁄4 miles (13.3 km) west of Manchester with regular Northern Rail services to these towns as well as Salford, Swinton and Hindley. It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

One of the more popular stations on the line (according to Strategic Rail Authority figures), the station used to be known as Walkden High Level to differentiate it from the London and North Western Railway's Walkden Low Level railway station (on the line from Manchester Exchange to Bolton Great Moor Street, which was closed to passengers in 1954). Latest figures indicate that over 300,000 passengers use the station annually. In February 2007 the Friends of Walkden Station community volunteer group was founded to campaign for improvements to the station's facilities and services.

One of the line's two remaining signal boxes was formerly located here (it acted as the 'fringe' box to Manchester Picadilly signalling centre), but it and neighbouring Atherton Goods Yard box were both closed in the spring of 2013 and their semaphore signals replaced by colour lights worked from Piccadilly SCC.

^ Walkden Low Level Station, Subterranea Britannica, retrieved 20 January 2010

^ Walkden Rail Users, Rail Regulator, retrieved 20 January 2010

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