Warrington West railway station
Warrington West | |
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General information | |
Location | Warrington Borough Council |
Coordinates | 53°23′37″N 2°38′19″W / 53.39361°N 2.63861°W |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Station code | WAW |
Key dates | |
16 December 2019 | Opened[1] |
Warrington West railway station serves the Omega Development Site and Chapelford urban village housing estate in Great Sankey, Warrington, England.[2][3] It has an interchange for bus services as well as a park and ride with parking for 287 cars.[4]
The station is located west of central Warrington on the existing southern Liverpool to Manchester Line route between Sankey and Warrington Central stations.
Project development
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Warrington Borough Council applied for funding from the government's New Stations Fund[when?] but the bid failed.[5] However, the council secured part of the funding through other sources and a planning application was approved in 2015, and it was hoped that construction could begin in 2016, until Network Rail increased the estimated cost by £4 million. A fresh bid to the New Stations Fund was successful, and the station opened on 15 December 2019.[6][7]
Services
Since the beginning of the winter 2019 timetable on 15 December, the station has had two trains each hour in both directions calling here off peak (including Sundays) - one express between Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Airport via Manchester Piccadilly and one stopping train between Lime Street and Manchester Oxford Road. Extra trains call at peak times.[8]
Preceding station | ![]() |
Following station | ||
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Widnes or Liverpool South Parkway |
Northern Trains Manchester to Liverpool Line |
Warrington Central |
References
- ^ "National Rail Enquiries - Station facilities for Warrington West". www.nationalrail.co.uk.
- ^ "Rising costs delay construction of Warrington West railway station – unlikely to open before 2018". Warrington Guardian. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^ "Plans for new £9m railway station in Warrington". BBC News. 30 May 2013.
- ^ "Warrington West railway station concerns raised by residents". Warrington Guardian. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2016.
- ^ "First look at new Warrington station". Warrington Guardian. 30 May 2013.
- ^ Topping, Stephen (10 August 2019). "This is when Warrington's new station will finally open". chesterchronicle. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ "Warrington West: Town's new £20.5m railway station opens". BBC. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ Northern Timetable 16 - Manchester Piccadilly to Liverpool via Warrington Central Northern; Retrieved 28 November 2019