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The station opened as Farnworth for Widnes on 1 August 1873 when the Cheshire Lines Committee opened the line between Glazebrook and Cressington & Grassendale to passengers. [ a ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Farnworth being at the time a village over 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Widnes, but has since been absorbed to become a northern suburb of the town.
A passenger station on the extension, known as Widnes Central, was opened on 1 August 1879. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The core service at Widnes Central was provided by the trains of the CLC running between Warrington Central and Liverpool Central . [ 8 ]
The station became a junction station on 1 July 1879 when Hough Green Junction was opened 15 chains (990 ft; 300 m) to the east, the junction gave access to the Widnes loop line owned by the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee, two of the three companies that jointly owned the Cheshire Lines Committee. [a] [b]
Warrington has seven railway stations within its boundaries. The town has two main railway stations, Bank Quay on the London to Glasgow and Chester – Warrington – Newton-le-Willows – Manchester lines, and Central on the Liverpool – Widnes – Manchester line and the Transpennine route.
Widnes railway station. Widnes is on the southern route of the Liverpool to Manchester railway line. There are two stations in the town, Hough Green and Widnes from which services are operated by East Midlands Railway and Northern. Northern operate frequent services to Liverpool and Manchester city centre from Hough Green and Widnes.
The station was subsequently renamed as Widnes South by BR in January 1959 to differentiate it from the neighbouring Widnes Central station on the former Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway & Midland Railway Joint Widnes Loop line and "North" (now known simply as Widnes) on the Cheshire Lines Committee main line. It then closed to ...
The station is located on a raised embankment on the eastern side of where the line crosses Winwick Street, on the northern edge of the town centre. [4] The Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) 1865 plan had Warrington station positioned to the north on the straight route , halfway between Padgate and Sankey stations in a direct line; this would have ...
As Headbolt Lane station is on the formerly diesel end of the Kirkby branch, the Merseyrail services change power from third rail to batteries at Kirkby and continue the journey using battery power. The Merseyrail terminus at the Liverpool end of the line was extended from Liverpool Exchange to underground Liverpool Central.