Appley Bridge railway station
Appley Bridge 
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Appley Bridge station in 2015, with a Northern Rail Class 150 at the Southport-bound platform, seen from the Appley Lane North road bridge.
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| Location | |
| Place | Appley Bridge |
| Local authority | West Lancashire |
| Grid reference | SD524093 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | APB |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.237 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.241 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.242 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.243 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.247 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Greater Manchester |
| History | |
| 9 April 1855 | Station opens |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Appley Bridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Appley Bridge railway station serves the villages of Appley Bridge and Shevington, both in Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester in England. The station is 7 kilometres (4 mi) north west of Wigan Wallgate on the Manchester-Southport Line. The station is in Lancashire, but it is supported by the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and as such within the GMPTE ticketing zone. It is operated by Northern.
The main stone-built station building survives adjacent to the Wigan-bound platform, but is now used for non-railway purposes (as a public house); there are modest shelters on both platforms for rail travellers.
The station was built by the Manchester and Southport Railway and opened on 9 April 1855. From January 1885 it was part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR). The main stone-built station building (no longer in use) was built during that time, in the standard L&YR style. The L&YR amalgamated with the London and North Western Railway on 1 January 1922, and this in turn was grouped into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923. Nationalisation followed in 1948. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Rail.
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