The Manchester to Preston Line
The Manchester to Preston Line links 14 stations, with a top line speed of 100 mph.
See the Manchester to Preston Line on the live map
The map draws the line on its own, names every station along it, and shows the trains running on it right now.
The line in numbers
| Track | about 54 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 14 |
| Top line speed | 100 mph |
| Passengers a year | 16.0 million entries and exits across its stations |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Buckshaw Parkway355,252 a year
- Chorley716,034 a year
- Adlington166,760 a year
- Blackrod226,316 a year
- Horwich Parkway549,902 a year
- Lostock285,908 a year
- Bolton3.0 million a year
- Moses Gate36,928 a year
- Farnworth50,790 a year
- Kearsley54,888 a year
- Clifton1,102 a year
- Salford Crescent1.3 million a year
- Salford Central814,746 a year
- Manchester Victoria8.4 million a year
The busiest station on the line is Manchester Victoria, 8.4 million entries and exits a year and 57th busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Caldervale Line, Deal Street and Edge Hill Line, Manchester to Southport Line, Ribble Valley Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.