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Ince railway station

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Ince suffered in the 1960s and 1970s from much house clearance and landscaping. This has resulted in low passenger usage for the station which served an area which was (until the 1960s) a bustling independent town. Ince (unlike Daisy Hill and Hindley, and other stations on the line) is not a commuter
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There are three seats, with a new shelter that contains benches. There is also a newly installed LED next train indicator sign (which the station did not previously have) and a payphone. A series of improvement works during June and July 2018 to the station added an array of CCTV cameras and a new
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The line between Wigan and Bolton has been given government approval to electrify and upgrade. Various bridges are being modified and rebuilt to make way for this. Ince station will thus have electrification hardware in the future. In 2024, the railway station became part of the £100 million
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Card-Only ticket machine. The station is entirely unstaffed and customers must obtain tickets from the ticket machine on the platform. those wishing to pay for their ticket with cash must use the ticket machine to obtain a 'Promise to Pay' and pay the conductor on the train.
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dormitory suburb and now the station is deserted even at peak times. Usage figures increased by around 10% in 2006/07 and recently by greater amounts (around 25% in 2007/08, and 29% in 2010-11) albeit from a relatively low base.
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and Manchester Victoria (via Atherton) in the current (Spring 2023) timetable. Eastbound services continue to Rochdale and
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electrification project, and is temporarily closed for approximately five months while upgrades take place.
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respectively. Since the winter 2022 timetable change, eastbound services continue beyond Manchester to
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Until November 1964, Ince was also served by a station at Lower Ince on the line from
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For the station in the Wirral also previously known as Ince, see
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The station is served by an hourly service in each direction to
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There is an hourly daytime Sunday service to Wigan,
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Index

Ince (Wigan) railway station
Ince & Elton railway station
National Rail

Ince-in-Makerfield
Wigan
Grid reference
SD595048
Northern
Greater Manchester
DfT category
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Office of Rail and Road
Ince
Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
Greater Manchester
Manchester-Southport Line
Manchester Victoria
Wigan Central
Glazebrook
Manchester Central
Manchester Victoria
Atherton
Wigan Wallgate
Rochdale
Leeds
Kirkby
Southport
Blackburn

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