Wilmslow railway station
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| Wilmslow | |||
| Location | |||
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| Place | Wilmslow | ||
| Local authority | Macclesfield | ||
| Operations | |||
| Station code | WML | ||
| Managed by | Northern Rail | ||
| Platforms in use | 4 | ||
| Live departures and station information from National Rail | |||
| Annual Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 ** | 0.570 million | ||
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |||
| Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wilmslow. | |||
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Wilmslow railway station serves the large south Manchester suburb and former village of Wilmslow, in the borough of Macclesfield and the county of Cheshire, England.
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 happily 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 massive 1959 signal box has been totally demolished.
Large scale resignalling of the line through Wilmslow was completed behind schedule in the Autumn of 2006.
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Wilmslow railway station from National Rail
- Street map and aerial photo of Wilmslow railway station from Multimap.com
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| Alderley Edge | Northern Rail Crewe to Manchester Line (Airport Spur) |
Styal | ||
| Northern Rail Crewe to Manchester Line |
Handforth | |||
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toward Euston
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VT7 |
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| Crewe | Arriva Trains Wales Crewe to Manchester Line |
Stockport | ||
