Glazebrook railway station serves the villages in the civil parish of Rixton-with-Glazebrook in the Warrington unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains. The station is 9.9 miles (16 km) west of Manchester Oxford Road on the Manchester to Liverpool Line.[1]

Glazebrook
General information
Location	Rixton-with-Glazebrook, Warrington England
Coordinates	53.4282°N 2.4598°W / 53.4282; -2.4598
Grid reference	SJ694924
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	Greater Manchester
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	GLZ
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Cheshire Lines Committee
Pre-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Key dates
2 September 1873 (1873-09-02)	Station opened
Passengers
2016/17	47,032
2017/18	45,432
2018/19	49,574
2019/20	48,808
2020/21	10,220
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

Glazebrook station was formerly located between two junctions, Glazebrook West[2] for the Wigan Junction Railways to Wigan Central and St Helens Central (GCR), services to those stations ceasing in 1952 (St Helen's Central) and 1964 (Wigan Central);[3] and Glazebrook East Junction for the line to Stockport Tiviot Dale via Skelton Junction, passenger services to there also ceased in 1964. East of Glazebrook there is the only passing loop east of Warrington, used regularly for late running fast trains to pass local services.

The station building, opened on 2 September 1873,[4] is of typical Cheshire Lines Committee design. The ticket office is open weekday mornings only (07:10 -10:10).[5] Although this station is not within the Greater Manchester area, it does mark the western boundary of the range of rail tickets produced by Transport for Greater Manchester. Level access to the platform is available on the Liverpool-bound side; the opposite side is accessed via a long ramp but neither side is listed as step-free by National Rail Enquiries.

Services

Daytime services are roughly two hourly towards Birchwood and Liverpool Lime Street and two hourly towards Irlam and Manchester Oxford Road. Against the trend, evening services are in fact more frequent than during the day (roughly hourly, though most services run to/from Warrington Central only).[6] There are additional peak services but no Sunday services (nearest stations with Sunday services are Irlam or Birchwood).

A summary of services is:

• 12 tpd towards Manchester Oxford Road
• 1 tpd towards Manchester Airport
• 13 tpd towards Liverpool Lime Street

See also

• Listed buildings in Rixton-with-Glazebrook

References

Sources

• Hay, Peter (1984). Pre-grouping trains on British Railways : the LNER companies. Poole: Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-86093-315-1.
• Sweeney, Dennis J (2013). The Wigan Junction Railways. Leigh: Triangle Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9550030-5-9.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Glazebrook railway station.

• Train times and station information for Glazebrook railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Birchwood		Northern Trains Manchester to Liverpool Line		Irlam
	Disused railways
Padgate Line and station open		Cheshire Lines Committee Glazebrook East Junction to Skelton Junction Line		Cadishead Line and station closed
Newchurch Halt Line and station closed		Great Central Railway Wigan Junction Railways		Irlam Line and station open