Lostock railway station

Lostock
Lostock station (2005), looking east. The Wigan lines on the right (with no platforms) can be seen joining the main line in the distance.
General information
Location	Lostock, Bolton England
Coordinates	53°34′23″N 2°29′38″W / 53.573°N 2.494°W / 53.573; -2.494
Grid reference	SD674086
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	Greater Manchester
Platforms	2
Tracks	4
Other information
Station code	LOT
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Liverpool and Bury Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
c. August 1852	Station opened as Lostock Junction
7 November 1966	Station closed
16 May 1988	Reopened as Lostock Parkway
?	Renamed Lostock
Passengers
2018/19	0.237 million
2019/20	0.280 million
2020/21	47,064
2021/22	0.144 million
2022/23	0.177 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Lostock railway station serves the suburbs of Heaton and Lostock in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. Built for the Liverpool and Bury Railway in 1852, the station was closed in 1966, then reopened on a smaller scale in 1988 to serve commuters.

According to large scale Ordnance Survey maps and local usage, the surrounding area is named Lostock Junction and the station is referred to as such by many local people. Network Rail's "location map" uses the same name.^[1] This is similar to the situation in London where Clapham Junction railway station is in fact in Battersea, and the surrounding area has taken the name of Clapham Junction. Lostock itself is over a mile to the west of the station.