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Walkden railway station is one of the principal stations that lie on the Manchester to Southport Line in England. The station is located west of Manchester with regular Northern Rail services to these towns as well as Salford, Swinton and Hindley. It was opened by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway One of the more popular stations on the line (according to Strategic Rail Authority figures), the station was formerly known as Walkden High Level to differentiate it from the London and North Western Railway's Walkden Low Level railway station (on the line from Manchester Exchange to Bolton Great Moor Street, which was closed to passengers in 1954). Latest figures indicate that over 300,000 passengers use the station annually. In February 2007 the (Friends of Walkden Station ) community volunteer group was founded to campaign for improvements to the station's facilities and services. One of the line's two remaining signal boxes was formerly located here (it acted as the 'fringe' box to Manchester Picadilly signalling centre), but it and neighbouring Atherton Goods Yard box were both closed in the spring of 2013 and their semaphore signals replaced by colour lights worked from Piccadilly SCC. ==Service== Monday to Saturday daytimes, two trains per hour go southbound to Manchester Victoria and two per hour towards Wigan Wallgate (hourly onwards to Southport and Kirkby respectively) northbound. In the evenings there is an hourly service in each direction to Manchester Victoria and Wigan. A normal Saturday service or modified Monday to Friday service operates on most Bank Holidays On 18 December 2009 the GMPTE voted to approve funding for a one-year trial of Sunday trains from Walkden, starting on 23 May 2010. The Sunday service consists of hourly trains in each direction. The trial was judged successful and as of August 2013, the service continues to operate.〔(Northern Rail Timetable 14 Manchester to Southport 19 May - 6 October 2013 ) northernrail.org; Retrieved 2013-08-28〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walkden railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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