Mobberley railway station serves the village of

Mobberley Mobberley is a village in Cheshire, England, between Wilmslow and Knutsford, which in 2001 had a population of 2,546, increasing to 3,050 at the 2011 Census. Mobberley railway station is on the Manchester to Chester line. Manchester Airport lie ...

in Cheshire,

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. It is to the north of the village and is managed by

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. The station is 18½ miles (30 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly on the Mid-Cheshire line towards Chester.

History

The station was opened on 12 May 1862 by the Cheshire Midland Railway which was absorbed by the

Cheshire Lines Committee The Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) was formed in the 1860s and became the second-largest joint railway in Great Britain. The committee, which was often styled the Cheshire Lines Railway, operated of track in the then counties of Lancashire a ...

on 15 August 1867. The station passed on to the

London Midland Region of British Railways The London Midland Region (LMR) was one of the six regions created on the formation of the nationalised British Railways (BR), and initially consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) lines in England, Wales and Northern Irelan ...

on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by

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until the

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ways. The station retains many of its original features and buildings, although these have been converted for residential use.

Facilities

The station is (like the majority of those on the line) unstaffed and has no ticket machine, so all tickets must be purchased in advance of travel or on the train. The main building is in private commercial use, but there are brick shelters on each platform, along with CIS displays, timetable poster boards and a bike rack on platform 2. A pay phone at the entrance can also be used to request train running information. Step-free access to both platforms is available via ramps from the

level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass or tunnel. The term a ...

at the Manchester end of the station. This retains its staffed signal box.

Services

There is an hourly service westbound to Chester and eastbound to Manchester Piccadilly Monday to Saturday. On Sundays there is now a two-hourly service to Chester and to

Southport Southport is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 90,336, making it the eleventh most populous settlement in North West England. Southport lies on the Iris ...

via Manchester Piccadilly. Mobberley was, until 12 December 2010, a request stop only.

References

External links

Mid-Cheshire Community Rail Partnership
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