Warrington Central railway station

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Warrington Central is one of three main railway stations serving the town of Warrington in Cheshire, England. It is located on the southern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Lines, the former Cheshire Lines Committee route between Liverpool and Manchester; the station is situated approximately halfway between the two cities.

The second station in the town is Template:Rws, which accommodates electrified lines on the West Coast Main Line with services to Template:Stn, Template:Rws, Template:Rws and Template:Rws. The third is Warrington West, which opened in 2019 and is on the same line as Warrington Central.

History

The station opened as Warrington on 1 August 1873 when the Cheshire Lines Committee opened the line between Glazebrook and Cressington & Grassendale to passengers. The suffix Central was added in 1875.Template:EfnTemplate:SfnTemplate:Sfn

Passenger station

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Warrington Central station's eastbound platform 1 towards to Manchester, westbound platform 2 to Liverpool

The station is located on a raised embankment on the eastern side of where the line crosses Winwick Street, on the northern edge of the town centre.[1] The Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) 1865 plan had Warrington station positioned to the north on the straight route, halfway between Template:Rws and Template:Rws stations in a direct line; this would have been about Script error: No such module "convert". further from the town. As a result of Warrington residents agitating to have the railway come closer to the town centre. A loop was constructed into the town and Template:Rws station and goods yard was constructed on it. The loop and station opened in 1873; the direct route, otherwise known as the Warrington avoiding line, was not opened until 1883.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

The original station building, which faces away from the town and is not easily seen by passengers, is an impressively long one-storey fine Italianate building of twenty bays in yellow brick with decorative stonework, numerous rusticated round-headed windows, a projecting central block with balustrades. The western end has a pavilion with a pyramidal roof.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn

It had (and still has) two platforms on either side of two running lines with a subway between them at the Winwick Street end. This subway was later opened out to provide access direct from Winwick Street to each platform. Although the train timetable has often included passenger train services terminating at Warrington Central, there have never been any bay platforms. Terminating services use one of the two through platforms and usually proceed afterwards, as empty coaching stock, into the sidings to the east of the station[2]

The station was rebuilt in 1983 with a street-level entrance facing on to Winwick Street.[3] Lifts to both platforms were installed in June 2008.[4] The station was refurbished in 2011 with improvements to "customer facilities".[5]

Goods station

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The exterior of the station in February 2013

There was a goods yard and shed to the north of the lines and east of the station.Template:Sfn

The original goods shed was adjacent to the main running lines, it had one line running through it, with a further goods platform to its north. The goods yard was able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock and was equipped with a five ton crane.Template:Sfn[6]

It was replaced in 1897 by a larger building set further back from the main lines, on the site of the original goods platform.[7] This warehouse was a three-storey buff-red brick with segmental windows set in brick panels decorated with moulded Accrington brick. The dominant feature of the warehouse is the series of large concrete panels under the roofline displaying the name of the CLC and its owning companies.Template:Sfn It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[8]

There were several cattle pens to the north-west of the goods yard and several short sidings immediately to the east of the passenger station. The goods yard crane had been upgraded to ten-tons.[7]Template:Sfn

The goods depot was the last on the line, goods traffic ceased and the depot closed in 1982.[9]

The warehouse has been redeveloped into apartments with several new build blocks occupying the former goods yard site.[8]

Engine shed

Sometime prior to 1893 a single road engine shed was provided to the south of the station, immediately behind the Liverpool bound platform. The shed was a sub-shed of Brunswick which usually supplied three locomotives. Turntable facilities were available on the spur to Whitecross Ironworks approximately half a mile away from the station.Template:Sfn The shed had been demolished by 1938, leaving just a stabling road. [10] By 1955 there were two stabling sidings with a headshunt.Template:Sfn It became a sub-shed of Trafford Park when Brunswick closed in 1961 and probably closed around 1966.Template:Sfn

Accidents and incidents

On 4 November 1880 a Cheshire Lines passenger train from Liverpool came slightly into collision with the rear of a Midland goods train, there were no injuries.[11]

Facilities

From street level, passengers climb six steps or a short ramp to reach the booking office, and climb further steps or use the lifts to reach the platforms. The station has a customer service office, toilets, waiting rooms, a newsagent and a coffee stall.[12] Outside there is a car park and a taxi rank. The station is located close to Warrington Bus Interchange.[13]

Services

As of the May 2023 timetable, an average of eight trains an hour stop at Warrington Central at off-peak times. Northern Trains operates one through stopping service in each direction each hour between Template:Rws and Template:Rws plus a second service each hour to/from Liverpool that starts/finishes here. Some extra peak and early morning/late evening services also operate between here and Manchester. On Sundays the service is hourly.[14]

East Midlands Railway operates an hourly service to and from Template:Rws calling at Template:Rws and Template:Rws, which continues via Manchester, Template:Stn and Template:Stn to Template:Rws. Late services run to Nottingham only.[14]

TransPennine Express also operates hourly services from Liverpool to Manchester, Sheffield, Template:Rws and Template:Rws [15] This calls at Birchwood, Irlam and Urmston en-route to Manchester Mondays to Saturdays (Birchwood only on a Sunday).

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Warrington West 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 Trains
Liverpool Lime Street – Manchester Airport 		style="background:#Template:Northern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Birchwood
Widnes 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 Trains
Liverpool to Manchester Line 		style="background:#Template:Northern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Padgate
Warrington West style="background:#Template:Northern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:0px none; border-bottom:0px none;" |   style="background:#Template:Northern colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:0px none; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Birchwood
Widnes   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;">   Manchester Oxford Road
    Birchwood
Limited Service
Warrington West   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;">   Birchwood
Liverpool South Parkway    
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Template:Rws 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 Connect
Liverpool Lime Street – Manchester Airport
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Acton Grange, Walton & Warrington RJD 147

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