Burscough Bridge railway station

West Lancashire, Italy

Burscough Bridge railway station is one of two railway stations which serve the town of Burscough in Lancashire, England (the other being Burscough Junction). It lies on the Manchester-Southport Line, operated and managed by Northern Trains, and is between New Lane and Hoscar, 27 miles 58 chains (44

.6 km) from Manchester Victoria (measured via Wigan Wallgate). There is a bus interchange next to the station. The station has been identified by Merseytravel as a potential interchange between the Liverpool to Ormskirk line and the Southport to Wigan line in its Liverpool City Region Long Term Rail Strategy. Until 1962, when this passenger service was withdrawn, trains from Southport to Burscough Bridge could continue to Burscough Junction and onto Ormskirk by means of one of the two curves that linked Wigan to Southport route with the ex-East Lancashire Railway main line between Preston and Liverpool Exchange. Both connections have since been lifted, but the formations remain and there have been calls from various parties to reopen them to allow through running from Southport to both Ormskirk and Preston.

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