Kearsley railway station

Kearsley
Kearsley railway station in 2018
General information
Location	Kearsley, Bolton England
Grid reference	SD752054
Managed by	Northern
Transit authority	Greater Manchester
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	KSL
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Original company	Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
29 May 1838 (1838-05-29)	Station opened as Ringley
1838	Renamed Stoneclough
7 February 1894	Renamed Kearsley and Stoneclough
February 1903	Renamed Kearsley
Passengers
2018/19	40,152
2019/20	51,488
2020/21	12,940
2021/22	40,976
2022/23	48,408
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Kearsley railway station serves the town of Kearsley and the outlying villages of Stoneclough, Prestolee and Ringley in Greater Manchester, England. It was originally named Stoneclough.^[1][2]

It lies on the Manchester-Preston Line 7+3⁄4 miles (12.5 km) north of Manchester Victoria, though only local services run by Northern Trains stop here.

The station was staffed until the early 1990s, however the arson attacking of the station building just below platform level saw an end to this arrangement. In the spring of 2015, the station's pedestrian rail crossing was replaced by a footbridge and the platforms rebuilt as part of modernisation work to electrify the line and raise line speeds to 100 mph.