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Horwich Parkway
Horwich Parkway seen prior to electrification
General information
Location	Horwich,Bolton England
Grid reference	SD643091
Managed by	Transport for Greater Manchester
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	HWI
Classification	DfT category F1
History
Original company	Railtrack
Key dates
2 July 1999 (1999-07-02)	Station opened
Passengers
2019/20	0.673 million
2020/21	0.104 million
2021/22	0.390 million
2022/23	0.447 million
2023/24	0.507 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Horwich Parkway is arailway station serving the town ofHorwich and suburb ofMiddlebrook inGreater Manchester, England. The station is16+1⁄4 miles (26.2 km) north west ofManchester Piccadilly on theManchester to Preston line. The station is close to Junction 6 of theM61 motorway. It has digital information displays.

Rail services are operated byNorthern Trains. Horwich Parkway opened on 2 July 1999. It is the only railway station owned and managed byTfGM. A ticket office was built in 2007 and car parking provision has been expanded on several occasions. A wind turbine was built in 2012 and the station is powered by green energy. Horwich Parkway is the railway station for theToughsheet Community Stadium, home ofBolton Wanderers F.C.

On 1 February 2021, management of the station was transferred fromNorthern Trains toTransport for Greater Manchester.

Thetown centre ofHorwich is much closer (1¼ miles) toBlackrod, the next station on the line. Frequent direct bus services operate fromBlackrod to Horwich town centre.^[1]

The station has a ticket office on Platform 1, which is open Monday-Saturday 06:20-19:35. A ticket vending machine is in place for purchase of tickets or promise to pay coupons when the ticket office is closed and for the collection of pre-paid tickets. Digital station information boards are in operation on both platforms. Car parking is available adjacent to the ticket office.

There are two trains per hour Monday to Saturday, northbound toBlackpool North and southbound toManchester Airport viaManchester Piccadilly. This is reduced to one train per hour on Sundays.^[2]

Extra services operate from Horwich Parkway on Mondays to Saturdays in the rush hour, with two per day southbound to Manchester Airport in the morning and one in the evening northbound to Windermere.

The delayed electrification work on the Manchester to Preston line (running two years behind schedule) led to a temporary reduction in service frequency here from the start of the summer 2018 timetable, along with regular weekend engineering blockades and replacement buses in place of the scheduled train service.^[3] Weekend services resumed on Sunday 11 November 2018 after the completion of the engineering work after more than three years of regular weekend possessions.

Electric service commenced on 11 February 2019 utilisingClass 319electric multiple units.^[4]

In years past, there were regular services toManchester Victoria and also toHazel Grove. Both ceased at the December 2022 timetable change, though the former had only run on Sundays since December 2021.

• Horwich railway station (town centre station, closed in 1966)

• "Bolton's Horwich Parkway station work starts".RAIL. No. 346. EMAP Apex Publications. 16–29 December 1998. p. 13.ISSN 0953-4563.OCLC 49953699.

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• Train times andstation information for Horwich Parkway railway station fromNational Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Blackrod		Northern Manchester–Preston line		Lostock
Chorley

53°34′41″N2°32′24″W / 53.578°N 2.540°W /53.578; -2.540

• Horwich
• Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
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• Railway stations opened by Railtrack
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1999
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