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Parbold railway station serves the town of Parbold and the nearby village of Newburgh in West Lancashire , England . The station is 11 km (6¾ miles) north west of Wigan Wallgate on the Manchester-Southport Line . SERVICES Monday to Saturday daytimes there are two trains per hour in each direction westbound towards Southport and eastbound towards Manchester (one per hour to Piccadilly and the Airport and one per hour to Victoria .) There is an hourly service in each direction on Sundays (eastbound to Manchester Piccadilly). HISTORY The station was built in the mid 19th century by the Lancashire And Yorkshire Railway . It radically altered the village, allowing middle class workers to live in Parbold and commute to urban areas throughout the north-west. The rail station also provided a natural centre for the village which it still is today. The railway station was originally named Newburgh after the nearest large village ( Newburgh ) but this became '''Newburgh for Parbold''' and then '''Parbold for Newburgh'''. At this point Dalton wanted to also to be mentioned in the official name so the railway company decided to just call the station ''Parbold'' (this happened before 1910 as the station was called Parbold in the Bradshaw of that date). In 2005 the railway station underwent a £250,000 restoration project which saw the ticket office restored to its former glory and new fences and CCTV installed. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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