There are two trains per hour Monday to Saturday, northbound to and southbound to via . This is reduced to one train per hour on Sundays. Extra services operate from Horwich Parkway on Mondays to Saturdays in the rush hour, with two per day southbound to Manchester Airport in the morning and one in the evening northbound to Windermere. The delayed electrification work on the Manchester to Preston line (running two years behind schedule) led to a temporary reduction in service frequency here from the start of the summer 2018 timetable, along with regular weekend engineering blockades and replacement buses in place of the scheduled train service. Weekend services resumed on Sunday 11 November 2018 after the completion of the engineering work after more than three years of regular weekend possessions. Electric service commenced on 11 February 2019 utilising
Class 319 electric multiple units. In years past, there were regular services to
Manchester Victoria and also to . Both ceased at the December 2022 timetable change, though the former had only run on Sundays since December 2021. ==See also==