Hall i' th' Wood railway station is the last stop before

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on the

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franchise's Ribble Valley Line into

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and

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in England. The station opened by British Rail on 29 September 1986. It is located in the middle of a housing estate and forms an unofficial footpath between the two sides. In March 2008 work began on a new car park for the station. It takes its name from the nearby

Hall i' th' Wood Hall i' th' Wood is an early 16th-century manor house in Bolton in the historic county of Lancashire and the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester, England. It is a Grade I listed building and is currently used as a museum by Bolton Metropo ...

, now a museum which is within walking distance of the station.

Facilities

The station is unmanned and has basic amenities - waiting shelters and timetable posters on each platform, plus a telephone. The wooden platforms are staggered, with the southbound one the further north of the two. There is no step-free access to either platform (the ramps from the road that passes beneath the line both have steps).

Services

The former franchise operator

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announced a much enhanced all day half-hourly service Weekdays and Saturdays in both directions from Dec 2017, rather than merely at morning and evening peak periods as before. The additional services however start/terminate at , so the service through to remains hourly. The Sunday service is hourly to . The timetable was affected by weekend engineering work south of Bolton (as part of the heavily delayed

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electrification project) for much of 2018.

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Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton DfT Category F2 stations Railway stations opened by British Rail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1986 Northern franchise railway stations {{GreaterManchester-railstation-stub