Padgate railway station is a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...
in the
Padgate
Padgate is a suburb of Warrington, in the civil parish of Poulton-with-Fearnhead, in the Warrington district, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
History Overview
Historically part of Lancashire, until 1838 Padgate was an area of far ...
area of the east of the town of
Warrington
Warrington () is a town and unparished area in the borough of the same name in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey. It is east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester. The population in 2019 was estimat ...
, in
North West England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by
Northern Trains
Northern Trains, branded as Northern, (legally Northern Trains Limited) is a publicly owned train operating company in England. It is owned by DfT OLR Holdings for the Department for Transport (DfT), after the previous operator Arriva Rail N ...
. It is 14 miles (23 km) west of
Manchester Oxford Road on the southern route of the
Liverpool to Manchester Line
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.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed, so passengers boarding at this station purchase their tickets from the ticket machines or from a train conductor. Waiting shelters and timetable posters are located on each platform and there is step-free access on both sides.
The station building is of typical
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 ...
design and houses a fish and chip shop.
Services
There is an hourly service in each direction to and to , with extra services in the peak hours. There are no services from this station on Sundays.
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References
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Railway stations in Warrington
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Cheshire Lines Committee stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1873
Northern franchise railway stations
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