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Chester railway station is located in Newtown, Chester, England.Services are operated by Avanti West Coast, Merseyrail, Northern and Transport for Wales.From 1875 to 1969, the station was known as Chester General to distinguish it from Chester Northgate. [1]
Chester Northgate is a former railway station in Chester, Cheshire, England, that was a terminus for the Cheshire Lines Committee and Great Central Railway. It was the city centre's second station (with Chester General ) with regular services to Manchester Central , Seacombe and Wrexham Central .
The Chester & Connah's Quay Railway ran from Chester Northgate in Chester, Cheshire, England, to Shotton, Flintshire, Wales. It was in use for its full length from 1890 to 1992. At Dee Marsh Junction it connected with the North Wales and Liverpool Railway.
The line begins at Chester and runs northwards. At Mickle Trafford the Mid-Cheshire Line diverges north-easterly to Manchester which is primarily used by local trains. Most trains between the Chester and Manchester instead use the Chester–Warrington line on the whole length and continue via the L&MR Liverpool–Manchester line.
The Chester and Holyhead Railway was an early railway company conceived to improve transmission of Government dispatches between London and Ireland, as well as ordinary railway objectives. Its construction was hugely expensive, chiefly due to the cost of building the Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Strait .
After the Chester–Crewe line was opened on 1 October 1840, the GJR train times at Chester were contrived to avoid any convenient change of trains to the C&BR, and this went as far as the Irish mails having to be carried across the street in Chester from one station to the other, even though there was a through track.
Chester to Manchester: 18 trains per day . Sunday [8] Chester to Manchester: 7 trains Manchester to Chester: 7 trains The above shows a cutback in the number of peak services to and from Manchester, which started in December 2008 and prompted an online petition. [9] It also included the loss of a daily direct service to Blackpool from Northwich ...
Chester Liverpool Road was a station on the former Chester & Connah's Quay Railway between Chester Northgate and Hawarden Bridge. It was located at the junction of Liverpool Road and Brook Lane in Chester , Cheshire , England.