The railway line between Wigan and was opened by the North Union Railway on 31 October 1838, and among the original stations was one at Euxton, close to the Bay Horse public house on the south side of Euxton Lane. The NUR was split up in 1888, part of it becoming wholly owned by the London and North Western Railway. Euxton station closed on 2 September 1895 at the behest of the Anderton Family. Junction Diagram showing railways around Preston, including Balshaw Lane & Euxton station A new station named Balshaw Lane and Euxton, between and and about south of the original Euxton station, was opened by the LNWR on 2 September 1905. Balshaw Lane & Euxton station was closed by British Rail on 6 October 1969 as part of the Beeching review of the UK railway network. Euxton also had a station at the Royal Ordnance Factory site, ROF Chorley, on the Preston to Manchester line which opened along with the factory in the 1930s; the station was named 'ROF Halt' and closed in 1965. As well as this another station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company's line was built named 'Euxton Junction' which was near to the Pack Saddle Bridge. Access to this station was via a footbridge from next to today's gastro pub, 'The Railway at Euxton'. However, this station closed in 1895.
The present station
Services from the former Balshaw Lane and Euxton station restarted on 15 December 1997. It was officially reopened in 1998,, and was now named Euxton Balshaw Lane. It has two platforms on the slower north/south lines of the West Coast Main Line and is served by Northern Trains with trains to Blackpool North and Liverpool. Euxton Balshaw Lane does not have any full-time staff, PA system or ticket office, nor, unlike Horwich Parkway railway station, a station built around the same period, any clocks or display screens. The use of "Balshaw Lane" in the station's name was added, at the time of opening, at Lancashire County Council's behest in view of the possibility, at some future stage, of the opening of a station on the site of the Royal Ordnance Factory at Euxton and to distinguish itself from that station. It was expected that the station at the ROF site might be named either "Euxton" or "Euxton ROF". In fact, when Euxton's other railway station eventually opened in October 2011, on the Manchester-Preston route, it was called.
Services
The station has a daily hourly service in each direction with 2 trains per hour in the weekday peaks. Services run from Liverpool Lime Street to and. Through weekday services to Blackpool North were restored in May 2018 following the completion of electrification work.
