Moses Gate railway station

Moses Gate
Location
Place	Farnworth
Local authority	Bolton
Grid reference	SD734067
Operations
Station code	MSS
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	13,653
2005/06	12,054
2006/07	13,209
2007/08	13,815
2008/09	18,274
2009/10	16,656
2010/11	19,296
2011/12	23,178
2012/13	25,978
2013/14	26,336
2014/15	22,742
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Transport for Greater Manchester
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Moses Gate from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Moses Gate railway station serves the Moses Gate suburb of Farnworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.

It lies on the Manchester-Preston Line, though only local services run by Northern call here.

Until the late 1970s, Moses Gate was one of the more important stations on the line between Manchester Victoria and Bolton, with Sunday service and high patronage.^[1] But due to clearance of much housing in the area, use has declined (see Strategic Rail Authority figures) although it retains an hourly service (see National Rail Timetable). Moses Gate is the nearest railway station to the village of Little Lever. The station was staffed until the early 1990s, until the arson of the station building (see photo to right).

From early May 2015 until the December 2015 timetable change, services from the station were suspended and replaced by buses due to the ongoing modernisation work here (where the platforms have been rebuilt, ahead of planned electrification of the line) and on the route further south at Farnworth Tunnel. The station reopened on 14 December 2015.

Service

There is an hourly weekday & Saturday daytime service (with a few extra peak period calls) until 18:58 northbound to Wigan Wallgate and southwards to Manchester Victoria until 18:45 in the current (December 2015 - May 2016 timetable).^[2] A limited number of weekday peak trains run to/from Wigan North Western rather than Wallgate.

There is only one evening service at 23:12 (Fridays & Saturdays only) which goes to Bolton & Wigan Wallgate. Mondays to Thursdays sees this train replaced by a bus, due to ongoing late night engineering work.

There is no evening service to Manchester and no Sunday service.

References

1. British Rail National Timetables 1973, 1974 and 1978 Editions
2. Northern Rail Timetable 14 - Manchester & Manchester Airport to Southport & KirkbyNorthern Rail; Retrieved 14 December 2015

External links

• Train times and station information for Moses Gate railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 53°33′23″N 2°24′06″W / 53.5563°N 2.4017°W