| Horwich Parkway | |
| Symbol Location: | gb |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Borough: | Horwich, Bolton |
| Country: | England |
| Grid Name: | Grid reference |
| Manager: | Transport for Greater Manchester |
| Platforms: | 2 |
| Code: | HWI |
| Classification: | DfT category F1 |
| Original: | Railtrack |
| Events1: | Station opened |
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Horwich Parkway is a railway station serving the town of Horwich and suburb of Middlebrook in Greater Manchester, England. The station is NaNmiles north west of Manchester Piccadilly on the Manchester to Preston line. The station is close to Junction 6 of the M61 motorway. It has digital information displays. Rail services are operated by Northern Trains. Horwich Parkway opened on 2 July 1999. It is the only railway station owned and managed by TfGM. A ticket office was built in 2007 and car parking provision has been expanded on several occasions. A wind turbine was built in 2012 and the station is powered by green energy. Horwich Parkway is the railway station for the Toughsheet Community Stadium, home of Bolton Wanderers F.C..
On 1 February 2021, management of the station was transferred from Northern Trains to Transport for Greater Manchester.
Passengers visiting Horwich should be aware that the town centre of Horwich is much closer (1¼ miles) to, the next station on the line. Frequent direct bus services operate from to Horwich town centre.[1]
The station has a ticket office on Platform 1, which is open Monday-Saturday 06:20-19:35. A ticket vending machine is in place for purchase of tickets or promise to pay coupons when the ticket office is closed and for the collection of pre-paid tickets. Digital station information boards are in operation on both platforms. Car parking is available adjacent to the ticket office.
There are two trains per hour Monday to Saturdays, northbound to and southbound to via . This is reduced to one train per hour evenings and Sundays.
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.[2] 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.[3]
Prior to December 2022, 1 train per hour southbound terminated at .