Padgate railway station is a

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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

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. It is 14 miles (23 km) west of Manchester Oxford Road on the southern route of the

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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.GB eNRT December 2016 Edition, Table 89

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 {{NorthWestEngland-railstation-stub