Eccles railway station
Eccles 
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Eccles railway station in 2014.
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| Location | |
| Place | Eccles |
| Local authority | Salford |
| Coordinates | 53°29′06″N 2°20′06″W / 53.485°N 2.335°WCoordinates: 53°29′06″N 2°20′06″W / 53.485°N 2.335°W |
| Grid reference | SJ778988 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ECC |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.149 million |
| 2012/13 |
 0.148 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.159 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.138 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.161 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Greater Manchester |
| History | |
| Original company | Liverpool and Manchester Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 15 September 1830 | Station opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Eccles from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Eccles railway station serves the town of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England. It was opened on 15 September 1830 by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M).
The station is next to the M602 motorway and is a short distance from Eccles Interchange. A short freight-only branch line diverges from the main line here, which descends into the Manchester Ship Canal docks at Salford Quays to serve a Blue Circle cement terminal. The branch now occupies the former slow lines formation, as the L&M was formerly quadruple track from here to Manchester (the Manchester and Wigan Railway route to Tyldesley and Wigan North Western shared the tracks of the L&M to a point just west of the station here before diverging towards Worsley). The old slow line platforms can just be made out, though they are fenced off and heavily overgrown (the lines themselves were mostly lifted in the early 1970s, apart from the docks branch). The substantial street-level buildings built by the LNWR were also demolished in 1971, after being seriously damaged by fire.
The station is staffed part-time, with a small ticket office (rebuilt in the summer of 2013) at street level. This is manned in the morning and early afternoon six days per week (06:25 to 12:55 weekdays, 07:25 to 13:55 Saturdays, closed Sundays). There are basic shelters, digital information screens and timetable poster boards on each platform, along with a P.A system to provide automated train running announcements (the information screens, CCTV cameras & P.A speakers were installed in September 2015). Step-free access isn't possible to either platform, as they can only reached by staircases from the road above.
Monday to Saturdays there is generally an hourly service from Eccles to Manchester Victoria eastbound and Liverpool Lime Street westbound. Extra trains run at peak periods.
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