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Leyland railway station

railway station in Lancashire, England
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Leyland railway station

Summary

Leyland railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.97% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18 views/month, #180 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Leyland railway station is located in Leyland[3].
  • Leyland railway station is located in South Ribble[4].
  • Leyland railway station is in the country of United Kingdom[5].
  • Leyland railway station's instance of is recorded as railway station[6].
  • Leyland railway station is operated by Northern Trains[7].
  • Leyland is named after Leyland railway station[8].
  • Leyland railway station's adjacent station is recorded as Euxton Balshaw Lane railway station[9].
  • Leyland railway station's adjacent station is recorded as Preston railway station[10].
  • Leyland railway station's adjacent station is recorded as Buckshaw Parkway railway station[11].
  • Leyland railway station took place at Leyland[12].
  • Leyland railway station's Commons category is recorded as Leyland railway station[13].
  • Leyland railway station's OS grid reference is recorded as SD547227[14].
  • Leyland railway station's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 53.699, 'longitude': -2.687, 'precision': 0.00027777777777778}[15].
  • Leyland railway station's located on linear feature is recorded as Carlisle Grand Junction Line (WCML Crewe to Carlisle), Golborne Junction to Preston[16].
  • Leyland railway station's number of platform tracks is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+4'}[17].
  • Leyland railway station's date of official opening is recorded as 1838[18].
  • Leyland railway station's state of use is recorded as in use[19].
  • Leyland railway station's historic county is recorded as Lancashire[20].

Body

Geography

Leyland railway station is in the country of United Kingdom[5]. Located in include Leyland[3], a town[21], in United Kingdom[22] and South Ribble[4], a non-metropolitan district[23], in United Kingdom[24], founded in 1974[25].

Designation and Status

Leyland railway station's instance of is recorded as railway station[6].

History and Context

Leyland is named after Leyland railway station[8].

Why It Matters

Leyland railway station ranks in the top 0.97% of railway_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18 views/month, #180 of 18,574).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Railway Codes and Other Data: A (Hopefully) Comprehensive Listing. railwaycodes.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . dataportal.orr.gov.uk. dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Peter James · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Historic england research records id → 498858
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P4117]]: 498858"
  2. 13d ago · Yirba · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Date of official opening → +1838-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → railway station
    State of use → in use
    Adjacent station → Euxton Balshaw Lane railway station, Preston railway station, Buckshaw Parkway railway station
    + 21 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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