Willington  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Willington,South Derbyshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°51′14″N1°33′47″W / 52.854°N 1.563°W /52.854; -1.563 | ||||
| Grid reference | SK294285 | ||||
| Managed by | East Midlands Railway[1] | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
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| Station code | WIL | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 12 August 1839 | Opened asWillington | ||||
| 1 October 1855 | RenamedWillington and Repton | ||||
| 1 May 1877 | RenamedRepton and Willington | ||||
| 1 October 1899 | RenamedWillington for Repton | ||||
| Unknown | RenamedRepton and Willington | ||||
| 4 March 1968 | Closed[2] | ||||
| 1 April 1994 | Reopened asWillington | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  38,786 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  9,160 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 35,542 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 27,674 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 29,374 | ||||
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Willington railway station (formerly known asWillington and Repton,Willington for Repton andRepton and Willington) serves the village ofWillington inDerbyshire, England. The station is 6¼ miles (10 km) south-west ofDerby on theCross Country Route. The station is operated byEast Midlands Railway but none of their services calls here. OnlyCrossCountry services call at the station.
The original station was opened in 1839 by theBirmingham and Derby Junction Railway on its original route from Derby toHampton-in-Arden, meeting theLondon and Birmingham Railway forLondon.
The station was renamedRepton and Willington in 1855, with a notice on the platform: "Alight here forRepton School".[2][3] The station closed in 1968 as part of theBeeching Axe, before being reopened in 1994.
It was planned that both platforms will be extended by up to 16 metres by no later than 2012.[4][needs update]
All services are operated byCrossCountry.East Midlands Railway operate the station but none of their trains call here.[5] The present station was constructed in 1994. It was planned as part of theIvanhoe line which would run through to Loughborough, but as of 2024[update] this has yet to come to fruition.
During their franchise,East Midlands Trains ran a couple of semi-fast services fromBurton upon Trent toLondon St Pancras. The last London service to call at Willington was on Saturday 13 September 2008. Passengers for London must now change atBirmingham New Street orTamworth for services toLondon Euston operated byAvanti West Coast andLondon North Western Railway or at Derby for the originalEast Midlands Railway services to London St Pancras.
Services operate several times each day in each direction northbound toNottingham via Derby and southbound toCardiff Central viaBirmingham New Street,Cheltenham Spa,Gloucester andNewport, running a primarily structured two-hourly service from around 07:00 to around 15:00. From 15:00, services operate three-hourly (one in each direction around 21:00 with the final service running northbound only towards Nottingham at 23:46). There is an hourly service towardsNottingham during the morning peak.[6]
There is no Sunday service.
Despite being one stop down the line fromPeartree, there is no direct connection between the two stations.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| CrossCountry Mondays-Saturdays only | ||||
The station opened on 26 May 1995 at a cost of £565,000, which was funded byDerbyshire County Council with a contribution fromSouth Derbyshire District Council.[7] The station, which is near to a facility for Toyota, was intended to be part of the Loughborough-Burton-Derby line, known as theIvanhoe line.[7] Unit150 101 formed the first service from the station.[7]
