Wrenbury railway station serves the village of
Wrenbury
Wrenbury-cum-Frith is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It lies on the River Weaver, around south-west of Crewe.
The civil parish of Wrenbury cum Frith also c ...
in
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...
, England and is on the
Welsh Marches Line south west of
Crewe
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the parish had a population of 55,318 and the built-up area had a population of 74,120. ...
. It is an unstaffed, request-stop station with two platforms.
History
The station was opened along with the line in September 1858 by the
Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway
The Crewe and Shrewsbury Railway was a railway company which was previously owned by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), built to connect Crewe with the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway which was jointly owned with GWR.
Authorised in 1 ...
.
Prior to the resignalling of the line in 2013, the barrier
level crossing
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at the south end was controlled from an ex-LNWR pattern
signal box
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In ...
, which operated manual semaphore signals. The station also has a small single storey main building (now disused) on the same side of the line but north of the crossing. The signal box has since been removed and the crossing is now remotely supervised from the South Wales
Rail Operating Centre
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in Cardiff.
Facilities
All tickets from here must be bought on the train or in advance, as no ticket facilities are available. Shelters are located on each platform, along with a payphone on platform 1. Train running information is offered via CIS screens, customer help points and timetable poster boards. Step-free access is provided to both platforms, though access is via narrow gates.
Services
On Mondays to Saturdays (including bank holidays), there is a two-hourly service northbound to Crewe and southbound to
Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury ( , ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is sited on the River Severn, northwest of Wolverhampton, west of Telford, southeast of Wrexham and north of Hereford. At the 2021 United ...
, with a few longer distance trains calling at the beginning and end of service (two stopping trains also continue to via the
Heart of Wales Line on weekdays only). On Sundays there is infrequent service (four trains northbound, six southbound) with southbound journeys continuing to
Cardiff Central and northbound trains continuing to
Manchester Piccadilly
Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchest ...
.
References
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External links
Railway stations in Cheshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1858
Railway stations served by Transport for Wales Rail
Railway request stops in Great Britain
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