Services
All passenger train services are provided by Northern Rail and operated by diesel multiple units. During Monday to Saturday daytimes, the following services operate from this station:
- 3 trains per hour (tph) to Manchester Victoria calling:
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- Hindley, Westhoughton, Bolton, Moses Gate, Farnworth, Kearsley, Salford Crescent, Salford Central and Manchester Victoria
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- Ince, Hindley, Daisy Hill, Hag Fold, Atherton, Walkden, Moorside, Swinton, Salford Crescent, Salford Central and Manchester Victoria
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- Hindley, Daisy Hill, Atherton, Walkden, Swinton, Salford Crescent, Salford Central and Manchester Victoria
- 1 train per hour (tph) to Manchester Airport (via Manchester Piccadilly) calling:
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- Hindley, Westhoughton, Bolton, Salford Crescent, Manchester Deansgate, Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport
- 1 train per hour (tph) to Rochdale (via Victoria) calling:
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- Bolton, Salford Crescent, Salford Central, Manchester Victoria, Moston, Mills Hill, Castleton and Rochdale
- 2 trains per hour (tph) to Southport calling:
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- Gathurst, Appley Bridge, Parbold, Hoscar, Burscough Bridge, New Lane, Bescar Lane, Meols Cop and Southport
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- Gathurst, Appley Bridge, Parbold, Burscough Bridge and Southport
- 1 train per hour (tph) to Kirkby calling:
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- Pemberton, Orrell, Upholland, Rainford and Kirkby
Connections are available at Kirkby and Southport for Merseyrail's Northern Line trains to Liverpool Central involving a changeover at these stations.
On Sundays there is an hourly service to Southport and Stockport via Bolton & Manchester Piccadilly (with two-hourly extensions to Chester via Altrincham) but no trains to Kirkby. Passengers for Manchester Victoria formerly had to change trains at Bolton or Salford Crescent as there was no service on the Atherton line.
This situation changed in May 2010 when a 12 month trial of an hourly Sunday service began between Wallgate and Manchester Victoria via Atherton (after Greater Manchester PTA agreed a funding package with train operator Northern Rail in December 2009). Transport for Greater Manchester hope to have the Sunday service become a requirement of the Northern refranchising from September 2013.
There was a limited freight service through Wigan Wallgate until recently, operated by EWS and running to Knowsley Freight Terminal on the Kirkby line - these are however currently (May 2010) suspended. Most freight services through Wigan run through Wigan North Western railway station on the WCML.
Read more about this topic: Wigan Wallgate Railway Station
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