In 1922 six "Down" (towards St Helens and Wigan) trains called at the station, "Weekdays Only" (Mondays to Saturdays.)

The services to and from St Helens came to a halt when that line closed to passenger traffic on 3 March 1952.

Pixton, for example, has a fine 1961 shot of a Summer Saturday Sheffield to Blackpool train at Lowton St Mary's which will have passed through Culcheth.

It would bear right at Hindley South onto the Whelley Loop and then join the WCML at Standish, bypassing Wigan altogether.

[13] By far and away the most heavily loaded, but sporadic, passenger trains through the station were for Haydock Park racecourse.