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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 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 ...
Although Thomas Cook Group plc ceased publication in 2013, the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable was revived by a new company in early 2014 as simply the European Rail Timetable. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] From 1981 to 2010, Cook also produced a similar bi-monthly Overseas volume covering the rest of the world, [ 3 ] and some of that content was moved into ...
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. Bank Quay is much altered, but Central (built 1873) is of some architectural merit, featuring polychromatic ...
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]
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.
Northern Trains, [5] trading as Northern, is a British train operating company that operates commuter and medium-distance intercity services in the North of England.It is owned by DfT Operator for the Department for Transport (DfT), after the previous operator Arriva Rail North had its franchise terminated at the end of February 2020.