Trains to Earlestown - Station Details and further Information on Earlestown Train Services
Earlestown train station is a train station in Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside, England. Since recent restoration of a platform for Warrington Bank Quay to Liverpool trains, it is one of the few "triangular" stations in Britain.
At present there are frequent services to Liverpool (Lime Street), Manchester (Victoria and Piccadilly), Warrington (Bank Quay), Chester and then via the North Wales Coast Line to Llandudno. The line through the 'curve' is still electrified as part of the spur between Winwick Junction (on the West Coast Mainline north of Warrington) and Golborne Junction (south of Wigan, where the main line is rejoined).
Earlestown station is regarded as having the oldest train station building in the world that has survived on an operational passenger station and also as having in "The Junction" the world's first stationary turntable (the familiar turning triangle or "Y") and it is also connected to one of the world's first railway viaducts. A further point of historical interest is that the nearby Sankey Viaduct passes over the former Sankey Canal. Thus, at this point, one of the earliest passenger railways crosses the first canal of the industrial revolution. |