Rufford railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Rufford
code = RUF


manager = Northern Rail
locale = Rufford
borough = West Lancashire
start = 1849
platforms = 2
lowusage0405 = 16,644
lowusage0506 = 16,485
lowusage0607 = 18,949

Rufford railway station, opened on 2 April 1849, serves the town of Rufford in Lancashire, England. The station is (9½ miles) south west of Preston on the Preston-Ormskirk branch service. The line was formerly the Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway, which was quickly merged into the East Lancashire Railway on 3 August 1846 into the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway.

The level crossing brings Rufford to a halt as the line runs across the B5246, the aptly named "Station Road". This is supervised from the nearby signal box, which also controls the only passing loop on the otherwise single track branch line.

Service

On Mondays to Saturdays there is a service westbound to Ormskirk to connect with the Merseyrail service to Liverpool Central and eastbound to Preston roughly every ninety minutes (twelve trains each way in total).

There is no Sunday service.

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