Warrington Bank Quay railway station

Warrington Bank Quay railway station is a mainline railway station serving the UK town of Warrington. The town centre has two stations on opposite sides of the main shopping area, Warrington Central operating a more frequent service to the neighbouring cities Liverpool and Manchester. A bus shuttle service operates every 20 minutes Monday to Friday daytime between the two, also linking the offices of the North West Development Agency on the Centre Park business park. Nevertheless Bank Quay suffers from a lack of bus links to other parts of Warrington. It does, however, have a large car park and a taxi rank.

The station consists of two island platforms. The easternmost one has 19th century buildings, but the western platform has buildings dating from the 1950s. Passengers enter the station at street level through a functional modern entrance containing an information office and ticket office, and proceed through a subway, reaching the elevated platforms by stairs or a lift. There is a buffet on the eastern platform.

The station's best known landmark is the huge Unilever detergent manufacturing plant which stands overlooking the site.

West Coast Main Line

Legend

		Edinburgh Waverley for ECML
		Haymarket
		Glasgow Central
		for SPT Network
		Motherwell for SPT Network
		Carstairs for SPT Network
		Carstairs South Junction
		Lockerbie
		Carlisle for Tyne Valley Line,
		Cumbrian Coast Line and
		Glasgow South Western Line
		Penrith
		Oxenholme Lake District
		for Windermere Line
		Lancaster
		Preston

		Wigan North Western
		Bolton
		Warrington Bank Quay
		Liverpool Lime Street
		Runcorn
		Weaver Junction

		Manchester Piccadilly

		Stockport
			Cheadle Hulme Junction
		Crewe North Junction
		Crewe
		Stoke-on-Trent
			Stone Junction
		Norton Bridge Junction
		Stafford

		Colwich Junction
		Lichfield Trent Valley
		Wolverhampton
		Tamworth
		Birmingham New Street
		Nuneaton
		Coventry

		Rugby for Birmingham Loop

		Northampton

		Milton Keynes Central
		Watford Junction
		London Euston

[edit] Services

It lies on the West Coast Main Line, operated by Virgin Trains, with regular services to London, Birmingham, the South West and Scotland. A regular regional express service operates between Manchester, Chester and North Wales operated by Arriva Trains Wales. There are also local services to Liverpool operated by Northern Rail, with a couple of these services per day extending to Ellesmere Port via Runcorn East.

Normal weekday service consists of:

1tph to London Euston (via the west coast main line) operated by Virgin Trains [1]

Calling at:

Crewe, Rugby, Milton Keynes, Watford Junction and London Euston

1tph to Glasgow Central (via the west coast main line) operated by Virgin Trains [2]

Calling at:

Wigan North Western, Preston, Lancaster, Oxenholme Lake District, Penrith, Carlisle, Motherwell and Glasgow Central

1tph to Manchester Piccadilly operated by Northern Rail [3]

Calling at:

Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows, Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Piccadilly

1tph to Llandudno operated by Arriva Trains Wales [4]

Calling at:

Runcorn East, Frodsham, Helsby, Chester, Shotton, Flint, Prestatyn, Rhyl, Abergele and Pensarn, Colwyn Bay, Llandudno Junction, Deganwy (request), Llandudno

1tph to Birmingham New Street operated by Virgin Trains [5]

Calling at:

Crewe, Wolverhampton and Birmingham New Street

[edit] External links

Warrington Rail: http://warringtonrail.railfans.co.uk

Train times and station information for Warrington Bank Quay railway station from National Rail
Street map and aerial photo of Warrington Bank Quay railway station from Multimap.com

Preceding station		Following station
Earlestown	Arriva Trains Wales Chester to Manchester Line	Runcorn East
Earlestown	Northern Rail Liverpool to Manchester Line (Warrington Spur)	Runcorn East
Crewe	Virgin Trains West Coast Main Line	Wigan North Western
Crewe	Central Trains West Coast Main Line	Wigan North Western