Trains to Euxton Balshaw Lane - Station Details and further Information on Euxton Balshaw Lane Train Services
Euxton Balshaw Lane train station reopened in 1998. The original Balshaw Lane station named 'Balshaw Lane & Euxton', had been closed in the 1960s Beeching review of the UK railway network. This station is the youngest Lancashire station. The station has an hourly service in each direction Monday to Saturday and every two hours each way on Sundays.
Euxton is a compact village with the towns of Leyland to the north and Chorley to the south-east. It is situated in the Borough of Chorley. Euxton also had a station at the Royal Ordnance Factory site, ROF Chorley, on the Preston to Manchester line; the station closed in 1965.
The present station has two platforms on the slower north/south lines of the West Coast Main Line and is served by the Northern Rail company with trains to Blackpool North and Liverpool as well as a once daily service to Barrow in Furness. Euxton Balshaw Lane does not have any full-time staff, PA system or ticket office, nor, unlike the recently opened Horwich Parkway railway station, any clocks or display screens.
When the nearby Buckshaw Village development is nearer completion, it is widely understood that a new station will be built close to the site of the Royal Ordnance station. |
