Ince railway station


Ince railway station serves the Ince area of Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester. The station is on the Manchester-Southport Line 17¼ miles north west of Manchester Victoria.
Until November 1964, Ince was also served by a station at Lower Ince on the line from Wigan Central to Glazebrook.
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 a bustling independent town. Ince is not a commuter 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 albeit from a relatively low base.
There are three seats, with a new shelter that contains benches. There is also a newly installed LED next train indicator sign 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 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.

Services

The station is served by an hourly service in each direction to Manchester Victoria via and to respectively. In the evenings, a few to Manchester trains call here, as there are no trains to/from Kirkby after 19:30.
There is an hourly daytime Sunday service to Wigan and Manchester Victoria in the current timetable.