Salwick railway station is situated on the Blackpool South branch line in England, 5+1⁄4 miles (8.4 km) west of Preston, and is managed by Northern.

It is used by very few passengers (as low as 1,404 in 2018–19), but provides a commuter service for the workers at the nearby Springfields Westinghouse nuclear fuel production complex.

The modernisation and electrification of the Preston to Blackpool North line, and hence the station, was announced in December 2009.

[5] The modernisation included rebuilding and raising the road bridge in the station vicinity for necessary electrification clearance and completely new signalling of the entire line[6] along with rationalisation of the lines and removal of the spur into the nuclear facility nearby.

[7][8] This resulted in a total blockade of the line as far as Kirkham and thus including Salwick station from 11 November 2017 until 29 January 2018.