Warrington Bank Quay railway station

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West Coast Main Line
Principal stations
(from south to north)
London Euston
Watford Junction
Milton Keynes Central
Rugby
Nuneaton
Tamworth
Lichfield Trent Valley
Stafford
Crewe then
>Manchester Piccadilly or
>Liverpool Lime Street or
Warrington Bank Quay
Wigan North Western
Preston
Lancaster
Oxenholme Lake District
Penrith North Lakes
Carlisle
Lockerbie
Carstairs Junction then
Motherwell
Glasgow Central or
>Haymarket
>Edinburgh Waverley
Warrington Bank Quay is a mainline train station serving the UK town of Warrington. The town centre has two stations on opposite sides of the main shopping area, Warrington Central operating a more frequent service to the neighbouring cities Liverpool and Manchester. A bus shuttle service operates every 20 minutes Monday to Friday daytime between the two, also linking the offices of the North West Development Agency on the Centre Park business park. Nevertheless Bank Quay suffers from a lack of bus links to other parts of Warrington. It does, however, have a large car park and a taxi rank.

The station consists of two island platforms. The easternmost one has 19th century buildings, but the western platform has buildings dating from the 1950s. Passengers enter the station at street level through a functional modern entrance containing an information office and ticket office, and proceed through a subway, reaching the elevated platforms by stairs or a lift. There is a buffet on the eastern platform.

Services

It lies on the West Coast Main Line, operated by Virgin Trains, with regular services to London, Birmingham, the South West and Scotland. A regular regional express service operates between Manchester, Chester and North Wales operated by Arriva Trains Wales. There are also local services to Liverpool operated by Northern Rail, with a couple of these services per day extending to Ellesmere Port via Runcorn East.

Normal weekday service consits of:

1tph to London Euston (via the west coast main line) operated by Virgin Trains [link]

Calling at:

Crewe, Rugby, Milton Keynes, Watford Junction and London Euston

1tph to Glasgow Central (via the west coast main line) operated by Virgin Trains

[link] Calling at:

Wigan North Western, Preston, Lancaster, Oxenholme Lake District, Penrith, Carlisle, Motherwell and Glasgow Central

1tph to Manchester Piccadilly operated by Northern Rail [link]

Calling at:

Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows, Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Piccadilly

1tph to Swansea operated by Arriva Trains Wales [link]

Calling at:

Crewe, Shrewsbury, Church Stretton, Craven Arms, Ludlow, Leominster, Hereford, Abergavenny, Cwmbran, Newport, Cardiff Central and Swansea

1tph to Manchester Oxford Road [link]operated by Arriva Trains Wales

Calling at:

Manchester Oxford Road only

1tph to Llandudno operated by Arriva Trains Wales [link]

Calling at:

Runcorn East, Frodsham, Helsby, Chester, Shotton, Flint, Prestatyn, Rhyl, Abergele and Pensarn, Colwyn Bay, Llandudno railway station, Deganwy (request), Llandudno

1tph to Birmingham New Street operated by Virgin Trains [link]

Calling at:

Crewe, Wolverhampton and Birmingham New Street

External links

[Train times] and [station information] for Warrington Bank Quay railway station from National Rail
[Street map] and [aerial photo] of Warrington Bank Quay railway station from Multimap.com

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