Swinton railway station 2.8

Swinton railway station serves the town of Swinton and Pendlebury in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England.Swinton is one of the local stations that lie on the Manchester to Southport Line between Wigan and Manchester. The station is located 5mi north-west of Manchester Victoria with regular Northern services to these towns as well as Salford, Atherton and Hindley, with onward trains to Wigan, Kirkby and Southport. It opened along with the line to passenger trains in 1889.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). The station is actually located in Pendlebury and not Swinton itself, the boundary between the two districts being about 40 yards further down Station Road (B5231), beyond the junction with Boundary Road and nearer the town centre.