Location and Facilities
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As noted above the station is unstaffed. There are no toilet nor refreshment facilities nor pay phone. Recently provided however are a ticket machine and "remote travel information" (by means of screens on each platform).
There is a public house The Commercial right next door to the station and bus stops for services to many parts of the town (and the town's other station: Daisy Hill).
Access to the Bolton platform is by a long steep multi-stepped ramp and to the Wigan platform via a steep unstepped ramp. Those with prams and pushchairs should be warned that access to both platforms is difficult, and for wheel chair users (except for the most adventurous, or more accurately, reckless) impossible. See Network Rail site, right.
There is a free car-park with convenient (if un-signposted) access to the station.
Read more about this topic: Westhoughton Railway Station
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