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Eccles railway station

railway station in Eccles, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Summary

Eccles railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.93% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (56 views/month, #172 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Salford[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Operator: Northern Trains[5]
  • Named after: Eccles[6]
  • Adjacent station: Manchester Victoria station[7]
  • Commons category: Eccles railway station[8]
  • OS grid reference: SJ778988[9]
  • Located on linear feature: Deal Street and Edge Hill Line[10]
  • Number of platform tracks: 2[11]
  • Date of official opening: 1830[12]
  • Different from: Eccles Road railway station[13]
  • State of use: in use[14]
  • Historic county: Lancashire[15]
  • P14452: 910GECCLES[16]

Why It Matters

Eccles railway station is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Railway Codes and Other Data: A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . dataportal.orr.gov.uk. dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Voldesade · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Eccles railway station, Greater Manchester - geograph.org.uk
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'cy', 'en', 'nl', 'ur']
    Sitelink count → 6
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Eccles railway station, Greater Manchester - geograph.org.uk - 5204503.jpg"
  2. 10w ago · Edward · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap node id → 25422814
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Openstreetmap node id: 25422814, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/262248|batch #262248]]"
  3. 19w ago · Yirba · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinates → —
    Country → —
    Instance of → railway station
    State of use → in use
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33789|batch #33789]]: NaPTAN stop area codes (910)"
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