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Last update 1 January 2024

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Ince & Elton station calls

Introduction

Owing to several factors, Northern Trains was not able to serve the line between Ellesmere Port and Helsby (including Ince & Elton station) with any regularity during 2023. Trains called on the dates shown below. Both Ellesmere Port and Helsby see a reliable service in other directions.

Some statistics

Ince & Elton station has no Sunday service; 2023 started and ended on a Sunday so there were 53 days when no train would be expected to call. Additionally, no service runs on 25 or 26 December. Therefore, trains should have called on 310 days. Each operating day should have two trains each way (four calls total), giving 1240 expected calls in the year. In 2023, trains actually called on 138 days (44.52% of schedule) a total of 435 times (35.08% of intended calls). This equates to 3.15 calls per day of actual service or 1.40 calls per scheduled day. Only 77 days received the full service quota.

2023 service dates

9 January 2023 19 days since last call on 21 December 2022 2 calls

10 January 2023 4 calls

11 January 2023 4 calls

12 January 2023 4 calls

14 January 2023 2 calls

16 January 2023 2 calls

17 January 2023 2 calls

18 January 2023 2 calls

19 January 2023 2 calls

20 January 2023 4 calls

23 January 2023 2 calls

25 January 2023 4 calls

26 January 2023 4 calls

27 January 2023 4 calls

28 January 2023 2 calls

30 January 2023 2 calls

31 January 2023 4 calls

2 February 2023 4 calls

4 February 2023 4 calls

6 February 2023 4 calls

7 February 2023 2 calls

8 February 2023 4 calls

9 February 2023 4 calls

10 February 2023 4 calls

11 February 2023 2 calls

13 February 2023 2 calls

16 February 2023 4 calls

17 February 2023 4 calls

18 February 2023 4 calls

20 February 2023 3 calls

21 February 2023 2 calls

23 February 2023 4 calls

24 February 2023 2 calls

25 February 2023 2 calls

27 February 2023 2 calls

28 February 2023 2 calls

3 March 2023 4 calls

4 March 2023 4 calls

6 March 2023 4 calls

7 March 2023 4 calls

8 March 2023 4 calls

9 March 2023 4 calls

10 March 2023 4 calls

11 March 2023 4 calls

15 March 2023 2 calls

20 March 2023 4 calls

21 March 2023 4 calls

22 March 2023 4 calls

23 March 2023 3 calls

25 March 2023 2 calls

27 March 2023 4 calls

28 March 2023 2 calls

29 March 2023 2 calls

30 March 2023 4 calls

6 April 2023 4 calls

7 April 2023 2 calls

8 April 2023 4 calls

10 April 2023 2 calls

11 April 2023 2 calls

12 April 2023 3 calls

13 April 2023 2 calls

14 April 2023 3 calls

15 April 2023 4 calls

17 April 2023 2 calls

18 April 2023 4 calls

19 April 2023 2 calls

20 April 2023 2 calls

21 April 2023 2 calls

22 April 2023 2 calls

24 April 2023 4 calls

29 April 2023 2 calls

1 May 2023 4 calls

2 May 2023 4 calls

3 May 2023 4 calls

4 May 2023 4 calls

5 May 2023 2 calls

8 May 2023 4 calls

9 May 2023 4 calls

10 May 2023 3 calls

11 May 2023 2 calls

16 May 2023 4 calls

19 May 2023 4 calls

20 May 2023 4 calls

23 May 2023 2 calls

5 June 2023 13 days since last call 4 calls

6 June 2023 4 calls

10 June 2023 2 calls

14 June 2023 4 calls

15 June 2023 4 calls

17 June 2023 2 calls

19 June 2023 4 calls

24 June 2023 4 calls

26 June 2023 4 calls

27 June 2023 4 calls

30 June 2023 4 calls

1 July 2023 4 calls

3 July 2023 2 calls

7 July 2023 4 calls

8 July 2023 2 calls

11 July 2023 4 calls

15 July 2023 4 calls

17 July 2023 4 calls

18 July 2023 4 calls

19 July 2023 2 calls

25 July 2023 4 calls

2 August 2023 8 days since last call 4 calls

4 August 2023 4 calls

5 August 2023 4 calls

7 August 2023 2 calls

8 August 2023 4 calls

18 August 2023 10 days since last call 2 calls

7 September 2023 20 days since last call 4 calls

9 September 2023 2 calls

14 September 2023 4 calls

15 September 2023 4 calls

16 September 2023 2 calls

18 September 2023 2 calls

26 September 2023 8 days since last call 4 calls

28 September 2023 2 calls

12 October 2023 14 days since last call 2 calls

13 October 2023 4 calls

20 November 2023 38 days since last call 4 calls

21 November 2023 2 calls

22 November 2023 4 calls

23 November 2023 2 calls

24 November 2023 2 calls

25 November 2023 2 calls

27 November 2023 2 calls

28 November 2023 2 calls

29 November 2023 2 calls

30 November 2023 2 calls

4 December 2023 4 calls

11 December 2023 4 calls

14 December 2023 4 calls

15 December 2023 2 calls

18 December 2023 2 calls

28 December 2023 10 days since last call 4 calls

29 December 2023 4 calls 3 days until next call on 1 January 2024