Wilmslow railway station


Wilmslow railway station serves the town of Wilmslow, in Cheshire, England. It lies south of and south of on the Crewe to Manchester Line, a spur of the West Coast Main Line. It is a junction with the Styal line, which takes an alternative route to Piccadilly via, and.

History

Both the main and Styal lines were electrified in 1959, as part of the West Coast Main Line electrification and modernisation programme. This included construction and installation of a state of the art signal box and control centre, near to the end of the Styal line down platform, and serving virtually the entire railway from to Manchester on 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 Provisional IRA exploded two bombs in relay boxes, near to this signal box, causing disruption to rail and road services. The railway reopened the following day.
In April 2006, as part of the total renewal of the railway from Crewe to, the large 1959 signal box was demolished.
Large-scale resignalling of the line through Wilmslow was completed behind schedule in the autumn of 2006.
The economic case for High Speed 2 Phase 1 included one train per hour each way stopping at Wilmslow, travelling between London Euston and Manchester Piccadilly.

Facilities

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

Services

Wilmslow station is served by three train operating companies, which provide the following general off-peak service in trains per hour :
Avanti West Coast:
  • 1 tph to, via
  • 1 tph to, via.
Northern Trains:
  • 2 tph to Manchester Piccadilly, via Stockport
  • 1 tph to Manchester Piccadilly, via
  • 1 tph to
  • 2 tph to Crewe.
Transport for Wales:
  • 1 tph to Manchester Piccadilly
  • 1 tph to, via Crewe, and ; alternate services continue on to,, or.