A Bolton train station no longer has the title of the UK’s ‘worst’ after climbing three places in the rankings. Kearsley train station is now placed as the 2,626th best in the country for cancellations and delays in the last four weeks, making it the nation’s third worst, according to Ontimetrains. The Bolton News revealed in May that 81 per cent of Kearsley’s services had been cancelled or delayed in the four weeks prior.
However, despite the shift from ‘worst’ to ‘third worst’, as of July 4, an increased 85 per cent of the station’s services fail to arrive on time. Police update after town centre bank has windows smashed and business daubed in paint Bid for 60-foot-high house on local landmark back on the cards 'Enforcement' could be carried out over overgrown trees and bushes Barrhill, the station which displaced Kearsley to get the dreaded title, has a relatively better rate of only 83 per cent of trains not arriving on time. The Scottish station still manages to rank worse than Kearsley as 22 per cent of its delays are more than 10 minutes, compared to the Bolton station’s figure of six per cent.
Cllr Tracey Wilkinson, from the party, Farnworth & Kearsley First, said: “The people of Kearsley have been going on about this for so long. “I’m calling for Northern Rail and the council to deal with it, people in Kearsley would be happy with one service an hour at this point, but they can’t even get that, so something needs to be done about it.” .