Warrington Bank Quay railway station

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Parameter validation".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "check for deprecated parameters". Warrington Bank Quay is one of five railway stations serving the town of Warrington in Cheshire, England. It is a principal stop on the West Coast Main Line between Template:Rws and Template:Rws. The station is a north–south oriented main-line station on one side of the main shopping area, with the west–east oriented Warrington West and Warrington Central operating a more frequent service to the neighbouring cities of Liverpool and Manchester.

Cheshire Cat Buses are operated from the station into Warrington Bus Interchange and in the opposite direction to the Centre Park business park, Stockton Heath and further south into Cheshire.[1]

Layout

Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The station consists of two island platforms. The easternmost retains the 19th century buildings, with the western island's buildings dating from the 1950s. Passengers enter the station at street level through a functional modern entrance containing an information office and ticket office, and proceed through a subway, reaching the elevated platforms by stairs or a lift. There is a buffet on the eastern platform.

Platform 1 serves arrivals and departures to Liverpool Lime Street with this service terminating at the platform, and occasionally for North Wales services. Platform 2 is generally used for North Wales services, and southbound intercity services to Birmingham New Street and London Euston. Platform 3 serves northbound intercity trains to Edinburgh and Glasgow Central. Platform 4 for services from North Wales to Manchester. The platforms are not bidirectional, except that the slow line between the station and Winwick Junction, some Script error: No such module "convert". to the north. This allows northbound departures from platform 1. The present platform 4 was numbered 5 for many years, because there was to be a north-facing bay platform in the west island which was numbered 4, but this saw no passenger use after electrification in 1972 being removed later.

The station's best known landmark is the huge Unilever detergent manufacturing plant which stands overlooking the site.[2]

The station suffered from years of neglect and, because of this, Virgin Trains announced improvements to the station. In 2009, an extension to the existing car park and a new taxi rank were built, along with improvements to the platforms and a new ticket office and travel centre.[3][4] The new entrance hall is now complete, with a ticket office and a newsagents. The buffet on the London bound platforms has been modernised, however a first class lounge is yet to materialise.

Low Level

Until 1965, 2 west-east oriented through platforms, 5 and 6 (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) were situated on what had been the St Helens Railway lines which pass beneath the station and the north-south West Coast Main Line. (The West Coast Main Line had been elevated to pass over the west to east line when the current station was opened in 1868). Although it was not the official title, this part of the station was referred to as Bank Quay Low Level.[5] There was also a bay platform, 7 situated at the eastern end of the site. The line remains for freight use only[6] and there are no longer any passenger platforms on the low level station.

In the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands the UK government proposed reinstating the Low Level station as part of a new connection to Liverpool from HS2.[7]

Services

File:Virgin Class 390, 390010 "A Decade of Progress", Warrington Bank Quay railway station (geograph 4019945).jpg
A Class 390 EMU Pendolino in old Virgin Trains livery, at platform 2, waiting to head south to London Euston in June 2014
File:Arriva Trains Wales Class 175, 175005, Warrington Bank Quay railway station (geograph 4020023).jpg
An Arriva Trains Wales Class 175, at platform 3, with the service to Manchester Piccadilly in June 2014

The station lies on the West Coast Main Line, operated by Avanti West Coast, with regular services to London, Birmingham, and Scotland.[8][9] A regular regional express service operates between Manchester, Chester and North Wales operated by Transport for Wales Rail.[10] Northern operate one early morning service per day to Ellesmere Port via Helsby with returning evening service.[11] The regular electric local service to and from Liverpool Lime Street that ran up until spring 2020 no longer operates.

Normal weekday service consists of:

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Runcorn East style="background:#Template:KAW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Transport for Wales Rail
Chester to Manchester Line 		style="background:#Template:KAW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Earlestown
Runcorn East style="background:#Template:Northern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Northern
Ellesmere Port to Warrington Line
Mondays-Saturdays only 		style="background:#Template:Northern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Terminus
Wigan North Western   Script error: No such module "If empty".<div style="height:8px; background-color:#Script error: No such module "If empty".; color:inherit; border:none; margin:0 -5px -2px;">   London Euston
    Crewe
    Rugby
Template:Rws   Script error: No such module "If empty".<div style="height:8px; background-color:#Script error: No such module "If empty".; color:inherit; border:none; margin:0 -5px -2px;">   Template:Rws
Template:Rws    
  Future services  <templatestyles src="S-note/styles.css" />
Template:Rws style="background:#Template:Temporary rail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   TBA
Northern Powerhouse Rail 		style="background:#Template:Temporary rail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Template:Rws
Template:Rws style="background:#Template:Temporary rail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   TBA
Northern Powerhouse Rail 		style="background:#Template:Temporary rail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Template:Rws
  Historical railways  <templatestyles src="S-note/styles.css" />
Daresbury style="background:#Template:GWLNW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Birkenhead Joint Railway style="background:#Template:GWLNW colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Terminus
Moore style="background:#Template:LNWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   London and North Western Railway
Grand Junction Railway 		style="background:#Template:LNWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Earlestown
Disused railways
Sankey Bridges style="background:#Template:LNWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   St Helens Railway style="background:#Template:LNWR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Warrington Arpley

References

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  10. ↑ GB eNRT May 2023 Edition, Table 77
  11. ↑ GB eNRT May 2023 Edition, Tables 77 & 85

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Bibliography

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External links

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