Wilmslow railway station

Wilmslow
Location
Place	Wilmslow
Local authority	Cheshire East
Coordinates	53.327°N 2.226°W / 53.327; -2.226
Operations
Station code	WML
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	4
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.570 million
2005/06 *	0.533 million
2006/07 *	0.499 million
2007/08 *	0.686 million
2008/09 *	0.750 million
2009/10 *	0.855 million
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wilmslow from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Wilmslow railway station serves the large town of Wilmslow, in the borough of Macclesfield and the county of Cheshire, England. The station is 19 km (12 mi) south of Manchester Piccadilly on the Crewe to Manchester Line.

This station is a junction on the Crewe to Manchester Line line six miles south of Stockport with the Styal Line from Wilmslow to Manchester Airport, with some trains then continuing to Manchester.

Both the Main Line and the Styal Line were electrified in 1959 as the first and, to a degree, the proving stage of the West Coast Main Line electrification and modernisation programme. A significant feature of that stage was the construction and installation of a state of the art signal box and control centre located 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 IRA exploded two bombs in relay boxes near this signal box, thereby causing great disruption to rail and road services, but there were no casualties. 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.

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 Northern Rail, Arriva Trains Wales and Virgin Trains services all stopping at Wilmslow towards Manchester Piccadilly.

Southbound Monday to Saturdays there are four trains per hour to Crewe. These consist of two Northern Rail trains per hour to Crewe, an hourly Arriva Trains Wales service towards Cardiff Central and Swansea, as well as an hourly London Euston-bound Virgin Trains service. There is also one local Northern Rail train per hour stopping only at Alderley Edge.

The station has four platforms with disabled access to each, two waiting rooms, public toilets and also has a double-manned ticket office located below the platforms.

External links

• Train times and station information for Wilmslow railway station from National Rail
• Crewe-Manchester Community Rail Partnership

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Crewe		Arriva Trains Wales Crewe to Manchester Line		Stockport
Alderley Edge		Northern Rail Crewe to Manchester Line		Handforth
				Styal
Crewe		CrossCountry Cross Country Network Limited Service		Stockport
		Virgin Trains West Coast Main Line