1. History

2. Facilities

3. Services

4. References

5. External links

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Buckshaw Parkway is a British railway station^[2] which opened on 3 October 2011^[3][4] on the Manchester to Preston Line, near Euxton Junction with the West Coast Main Line. It is one of Euxton's two railway stations being in Buckshaw Village, formerly the Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF Chorley) between Chorley and Leyland. It is on the site of the four-platform Chorley ROF Halt, which was closed in 1964; this station remained virtually intact until the 1970s, but was finally cleared in the early 2000s.

History

The station gained planning permission in 1999.^[4] It was put on hold due to a funding shortfall,^[5] but it was announced in 2009 that £3.3 million had been allocated by Lancashire County Council from the Community Investment Fund.^[6] Construction was expected to begin in early 2010 and be completed in the same year,^[3] but a further funding shortfall resulted in the designs for the ticket office being scaled down.^[7] Contractors started work in October 2010 and the station was completed by autumn 2011.^[8] The cost of the station now stands at £6.8 million.^[8] The station opened on 3 October 2011.^[9]

The first train arrived on time with journalists from a local paper, The Chorley Guardian, seeking interviews with waiting passengers.^[10] IT Worker Alex Howarth was the first passenger from the station, whilst a Mr Brown was the first person to buy a ticket from the station.^[11]

Facilities

The station has a staffed ticket office,^[12] Monday-Saturday 06:20-00:20

Sunday 08:15-23:50 .^[13] There is a free car park for around 200 cars.^[8] Both platforms are fully accessible (via lifts), with train running information offered via digital CIS displays, automated announcements and timetable posters.

Services

The station has a regular service to both main Manchester stations, with that to Victoria calling at all stations to Bolton and the Piccadilly and Airport trains running semi-fast. Northbound there are two trains per hour to Preston, one of which continues to Blackpool North (services from Manchester Victoria terminate here, except in the business peaks and evening).^[14] On Sundays, there are hourly services to both Manchester stations and two per hour to Blackpool North.

On 17 October 2011, First TransPennine Express services from {{stnlnk|Manchester Airport}} to {{stnlnk|Blackpool North}} started calling at the station. From the December 2013 timetable change, Windermere and Barrow-in-Furness services called at Buckshaw when they were attached to the rear of Blackpool North services. First TransPennine Express used to run the service from Manchester Airport to Blackpool North but this was passed on to the new Northern franchise on 1 April 2016.

Since May 2018, the current local stopping service from Manchester Victoria to Blackpool has been temporarily curtailed here on weekdays (through running will still apply in the evening) due to ongoing delays with the electrification work on the Manchester to Preston route (which is running two years behind schedule because of problems erecting electrification masts at several locations along the line). Saturday and Sunday services were replaced by buses most weekends from May 2015 until November 2018 due to the late-running electrification work on the route.^[15]. Weekend services resumed on Sunday 11 November 2018 after the completion of the electrification engineering work.

Travellers from certain local stations will need to change trains here for Preston and Blackpool until the work is complete and the next timetable update is implemented in May 2019.

Electric service commenced on 11 February 2019 utilising Class 319 electric multiple units.

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