Wilmslow railway station

Coordinates: 53°19′37″N 2°13′34″W / 53.327°N 2.226°W / 53.327; -2.226
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Wilmslow
National Rail
Wilmslow railway station in 2007
General information
LocationWilmslow, Cheshire
England
Coordinates53°19′37″N 2°13′34″W / 53.327°N 2.226°W / 53.327; -2.226
Grid referenceSJ850811
Managed byNorthern Trains
Platforms4
Other information
Station codeWML
ClassificationDfT category C2
History
Opened1842
Key dates
1959Electrified
Passengers
2018/19Increase 1.620 million
 Interchange  Increase 0.139 million
2019/20Decrease 1.561 million
 Interchange Increase 0.144 million
2020/21Decrease 0.260 million
 Interchange Decrease 16,853
2021/22Increase 0.838 million
 Interchange Increase 66,870
2022/23Increase 0.993 million
 Interchange Increase 90,395
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Wilmslow railway station is in

Crewe to Manchester Line
.

This station is a junction on the Crewe–Manchester line 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Stockport with the Styal line from Wilmslow to Manchester Airport, with some trains then continuing to Manchester.

The station has four platforms with disabled access to all but platform 1, the northbound Styal line platform, two waiting rooms, public toilets and also has a double-staffed booking office below the platforms.

History

Both the Main Line and the Styal line were electrified in 1959 as part of the West Coast Main Line electrification and modernisation programme with the construction and installation of a state of the art signal box and control centre near the end of the Styal line down platform at Wilmslow and serving virtually the entire railway from Crewe to Manchester via both routes. The complexity of that installation was not repeated for the remainder of the electrification scheme, which had its control and signalling systems renewed in ways that were less highly automated.

In March 1997, the

signal box was demolished.[2]

Large-scale resignalling of the line through Wilmslow was completed behind schedule in the Autumn of 2006.

Services

Monday to Saturday, there are five trains per hour northbound with

Bolton
.

Southbound Monday to Saturdays there are four trains per hour to

London Euston bound Avanti West Coast express service. There is also one local Northern Trains train per hour that terminates at Alderley Edge
.

On Sundays, there are hourly main line services to South Wales and London but the local routes run less frequently i.e. two trains per hour to

Manchester Airport continuing to Liverpool Lime Street via Chat Moss. Southbound there is an hourly local stopping service to Crewe. The service from Liverpool Lime Street
terminates here.

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
Avanti West Coast
West Coast Main Line
Welsh Marches Line
Northern Trains
Northern Trains
Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street via Chat Moss
(Styal line local stopping service)
Manchester Airport
TerminusNorthern Trains
Wilmslow to Liverpool Lime Street
(Monday to Saturday nighttimes and Sundays only)

Future high speed services

The economic case for High Speed 2 Phase 1 includes one train per hour each way stopping at Wilmslow, travelling between London Euston and Manchester Piccadilly.[4]

References

  1. ISSN 0140-0460
    .
  2. ^ "Network Rail reduces the station's 60s signal box to rubble". Macclesfield Express. 19 April 2006. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  3. ^ GB eNRT, May 2018 Edition, Tables 65, 84 & 131
  4. ^ "The economic case For HS2" (PDF). Department for Transport. October 2013. pp. 39, 42. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 38-42.
    OCLC 892047119
    .

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