Warrington West is a railway station on the Liverpool–Manchester line. The station, situated east of Liverpool Lime Street, serves the civil parish of Great Sankey,

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 Cheshire, England. It is owned by

Network Rail Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain. Network Rail is an "arm's leng ...

and managed by

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. It is served by bus services and has parking for 287 cars. The station is located west of Warrington on the existing southern Liverpool–Manchester line, between Sankey for Penketh and Warrington Central.

History

Warrington Borough Council Warrington Borough Council is the local authority of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It provides a full range of local government services in ...

applied for funding from the Government's

New Stations Fund The New Stations Fund is a programme by the United Kingdom Department for Transport to partially fund new railway stations in conjunction with local authorities or developers. First round The first round was launched in 2013 and funded £20m ac ...

but the bid failed. However, the council secured part of the funding through other sources and a planning application was approved in 2015, and it was hoped that construction could begin in 2016, until Network Rail increased the estimated cost by £4 million. A fresh bid to the New Stations Fund was successful, and the station opened on 16 December 2019.

Services

The station opened on 15 December 2019. It had two trains each hour in each direction calling here off peak (including Sundays) - one express between

Liverpool Lime Street Liverpool Lime Street is a terminus railway station and the main station serving the city centre of Liverpool. Opened in August 1836, it is the oldest still-operating grand terminus mainline station in the world. A branch of the West Coast ...

and via Manchester Piccadilly and one stopping train between Lime Street and . Extra trains called at peak times. This was one train per hour fewer than Northern had promised in its franchise bid. The

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crisis saw services reduced to one per hour, and this will not be changed until the new timetable in December 2022.
December 2022 timetable - Manchester area''; Retrieved 12 May 2022

References

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