page_title: Hindley railway station
section_title: Friends of Hindley Station
hierarchical_section_title: Hindley railway station / Facilities / Friends of Hindley Station
caption_attribution_description: English: Garden, Hindley railway station
context_page_description: Hindley railway station serves the area of Hindley in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, England.
  Hindley is one of the principal stations that lie on the Wigan to Manchester line, just before the route branches to use either the Atherton line or the Eastern Branch line via Westhoughton and Bolton. The station is located 14 miles west of Manchester Victoria with regular Northern Trains services to these towns as well as Salford, Swinton and Walkden, with onward trains to Kirkby and Southport. Hindley is one of the nearest stations to Aspull, although there is no direct bus link, the 559 bus having been withdrawn between Hindley and Aspull.
  The station is situated some distance from the centre of the town. Figures showed that usage increased year-on year by 9%, with a further healthy increase for 2007/8, which continues. Interchange passengers amounted to around 13,000 further passengers annually. Figures demonstrate that usage more than doubled from 2004 to 2011, with a further 17% increase from 2011 to 2012, and 13% from 2012 to 2013.
context_section_description: There is now a "Friends of Hindley Station" group, formed in 2007, whose aim is to promote the use of the station by improvements. The group have had several weekend clearing sessions. During one such session a large nameplaque made of stones on the station banking was uncovered. The results objectively can be considered spectacular, evidenced by the number of "in bloom" and landscaping awards won.  Also, partially as a result of their input, there was a direct link to Manchester Airport from December 2008.  This ended at the May 2018 timetable change and intending travellers now have to change at Manchester Piccadilly or Salford Crescent to reach the airport.
caption: The garden on platform 1
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