 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Birchwood railway station" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
Birchwood  | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Birchwood railway station, July 2018 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Birchwood,Warrington England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°24′45″N2°31′31″W / 53.4124°N 2.5253°W /53.4124; -2.5253 | ||||
| Grid reference | SJ651908 | ||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | BWD | ||||
| Classification | DfT category D | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | July 1981 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  0.600 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.120 million | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.330 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.359 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.372 million | ||||
| |||||
| |||||
Birchwood railway station is arailway station serving the town ofBirchwood, Cheshire,England. The station is24+1⁄4 miles (39.0 km) east ofLiverpool Lime Street and13+1⁄4 miles (21.3 km) west ofManchester Piccadilly on theLiverpool-Manchester line.
The station is operated byNorthern Trains and is on the southern route of theLiverpool–Manchester Line. It is staffed full-time (between 06:10 and 23:45 Mondays–Saturdays and 08:25 and 23:20 on Sundays).
There is sheltered seating on both platforms, with a ticket office with seating on the Manchester-bound platform. A footbridge connects the two platforms. Outside the station there is a bus stop and the station is close to the Birchwood shopping mall.
The ticket office is open until 22:00, though it does occasionally close during the day whilst staff carry out other duties. During the daytime there are three staff members on the station (station clerk, kiosk and a cleaner), and two of an evening (station clerk and a security guard). When the ticket office is closed there are two ticket machines in the station building on platform 1 and one in the waiting room on platform 2.[1] Train running information is provided by automated announcements, digital information screens and timetable posters. Step-free access is available via lifts on both platforms (commissioned in the autumn of 2014).[2]
The station sees a general frequency of three to four trains per hour in each direction. As of December 2022, services are provided byNorthern Trains andTransPennine Express, with limitedEast Midlands Railway calls at certain points of the day.
Most stopping trains originating from Liverpool Lime Street now terminate at Warrington Central.
The TPE service replaces the former Northern Connect one toManchester Airport, which was withdrawn in December 2022 as part of plans to alleviate congestion in the "Castlefield Corridor" section of route through the centre of Manchester. This has also seen the number of Northern local trains to Manchester Oxford Road cut from two per hour to one (though there is still a half-hourly service at peak times).
The station was officially opened byBritish Rail ChairmanSir Peter Parker on 31 July 1981.[4] Constructed at a cost of £750,000, it was the result of cooperation between British Rail, Warrington New Town Development Corporation, Warrington Borough Council and local bus companies.[4] Bus interchange facilities were provided at the station, which served a developing residential and commercial area.[4] The initial service provision was fifty trains per day.[4]
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Trains | ||||
| East Midlands Railway Liverpool-Norwich Peak Hours only | ||||
| Northern Trains Liverpool-Manchester Airport | ||||
| Warrington Central | TransPennine Express South TransPennine | Irlam | ||
| Manchester Oxford Road |
