Wilmslow railway station
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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 Provisional IRA exploded two bombs in relay boxes near this signal box, causing disruption to rail and road services.[1] The railway reopened the following day. In April 2006, as part of the total renewal of the railway from Crewe to Cheadle Hulme near Stockport, the large 1959 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 Avanti West Coast, Northern Trains and Transport for Wales services stopping at Wilmslow en route to Template:Rws. One Northern Trains service operates via Template:Rws (all stations via Template:Rws), the remainder all run via Template:Rws.[3] Since May 2018, some Northern Trains services run beyond Piccadilly to either Liverpool Lime Street via Template:Rws or Template:Rws via Template:Rws.
Southbound Monday to Saturdays there are four trains per hour to Template:Rws. These consist of two Northern Trains trains per hour that terminate at Template:Rws (local stopping service), an hourly Transport for Wales fast service that continues via Shrewsbury to Cardiff Central, Swansea and West Wales and an hourly Template:Rws 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 Template:Rws - one via Template:Rws and one via Template:Rws continuing to Template:Rws via Chat Moss. Southbound there is an hourly local stopping service to Template:Rws. The service from Template:Rws terminates here.
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| Terminus | Northern Trains Wilmslow to Template:Rws (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
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Further reading
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External links
- Train times and station information for Wilmslow railway station from National Rail
- Crewe-Manchester Community Rail Partnership
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