Salford Crescent railway station
railway station in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Salford Crescent railway station is a railway station in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, opened by British Rail in 1987.
The station is 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Salford Central, 1.75 miles (2.82 km) west of Manchester Victoria and 2.25 miles (3.62 km) west of Manchester Piccadilly. It consists of a single island platform with a ticket office and waiting room.
The station is near the University of Salford, between the Peel Park and Frederick Road Campus.
Salford Crescent is the point of a split in the Manchester–Preston line, with local services running on to Manchester Victoria and long-distance services going to Manchester Piccadilly (via the 1988 Windsor Link to Ordsall Lane Junction), and is also part of the line between Manchester and Southport, frequently being used as an interchange between the two lines. Manchester North signalling centre was formerly located at the station, prior to its closure in April 2015. Ticket gates have been in operation at the station since 2016.
Services
All services are operated by Northern Trains. As of December 2022, the typical weekday off-peak service is:
Northbound
2tph to Blackpool North
2tph to Southport
2tph to Blackburn via Bolton, with 1tph continuing to Clitheroe
1tph to Headbolt Lane
1tph to Wigan Wallgate
Southbound
2tph to Manchester Airport
1tph to Manchester Oxford Road
1tph to Stalybridge
2tph to Rochdale
1tph to Leeds
1tph to Blackburn via Manchester Victoria and Rochdale
Services are significantly reduced on Sundays, with 1 train per hour to each of Blackpool North, Southport, Clitheroe, Wigan North Western, Stalybridge, Blackburn via Manchester Victoria and Manchester Airport.
Engineering work on the heavily delayed Manchester–Preston line electrification project saw all weekend services here suspended (and replaced by buses) for much of 2017-18 (through trains being diverted via Eccles and the West Coast Main Line) - these blockades continued until November 2018.
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