SWINTON (MANCHESTER) RAILWAY STATION

'Swinton (Manchester) railway station' serves the town of Swinton in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester.
Swinton is one of the local stations that lie on the Atherton line, between Wigan and Manchester. The station is located 9 km (6 miles) west of Manchester Victoria with regular Northern Rail services to these towns as well as Salford, Atherton and Hindley, with onward trains to Kirkby and Southport.
Although the station is in the City of Salford, rather than Manchester, the name "Swinton (Manchester)" is used by National Rail to refer to the station (to avoid confusion with Swinton railway station in South Yorkshire.

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Service

Monday to Saturday daytimes, two trains per hour go southbound towards Manchester Victoria and Rochdale and two per hour towards Wigan Wallgate (hourly onwards to Southport and Kirkby respectively) northbound.
Evenings there is an hourly service in each direction to Manchester Victoria and Wigan.
There is no service all day Sundays.

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