Wilmslow railway station

Wilmslow
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Location
Place	Wilmslow
Local authority	Borough of Cheshire East
Coordinates
Grid reference	SJ850811
Operations
Station code	WML
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	4
DfT category	C2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections 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
2010/11	0.990 million
2011/12	1.070 million
2012/13	1.141 million
2013/14	1.279 million
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wilmslow from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
UK Railways portal

Wilmslow railway station is in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. The station is 12 miles (19 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly on the Crewe to Manchester Line.

This station is a junction on the Crewe to Manchester Line 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Stockport with the Styal Line from Wilmslow to Manchester Airport, with some trains then continuing to Manchester.

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

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. 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 stopping at Wilmslow en route to Manchester Piccadilly. One Northern service operates via the Airport, the remainder all run via Stockport.

Southbound Monday to Saturdays there are four trains per hour to Crewe. These consist of two Northern Rail trains per hour to Crewe (local stopping service), an hourly Arriva Trains Wales fast service that continues via Shrewsbury to Cardiff Central and Swansea and an hourly London Euston-bound Virgin Trains express service. There is also one local Northern Rail 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. hourly to Piccadilly via Stockport and Alderley Edge, two hourly to the Airport and Crewe.

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

External links

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