Trains to Wilmslow - Station Details and further Information on Wilmslow Train Services
Wilmslow train station serves the large south Manchester suburb and former village of Wilmslow, in the borough of Macclesfield and the county of Cheshire, England. The station is 12 miles 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.
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.
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.
Large scale resignalling of the line through Wilmslow was completed behind schedule in the Autumn of 2006. |
