Wigan North Western railway station
Being located on the West Coast Main Line, Wigan North Western has retained regular trains to a wide range of destinations.Avanti West Coast services southbound towards London Euston and northbound to Preston and Scotland are operated by electric Class 390 Pendolino trains.[11] Between May 2019 and December 2022, this was replaced by an hourly diesel service between Manchester Airport and Lancaster, with most trains continuing on to either Barrow-in-Furness or Windermere.In December 2022, the Manchester Airport to Lancaster services reverted to their previous route via Chorley thus ceasing to serve Wigan.These ran on weekdays only - weekend trains were replaced by buses until November 2018 due to ongoing electrification work on the Manchester–Preston line through Bolton and Salford Crescent.From the December 2019 timetable change, most weekday services to/from Manchester via Hindley reverted to their previous route via Wallgate, with just a few trains starting or finishing here in the morning and both peak periods.These services no longer call at Wigan North Western and have been re-routed via Bolton now that the line is electrified (work finally being completed in early 2019 ahead of the spring timetable update).The single London Midland service from Birmingham New Street to Preston that used to call in the evening was withdrawn at the end of the 2007–08 timetable.Under HS2 and government proposals' high-speed trains would stop at the station from Glasgow before joining the new HS2 line south of Wigan to Birmingham and London.
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