Runcorn East railway station


Runcorn East railway station serves the eastern suburbs of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, and offers trains to Warrington and Manchester and to Chester and North Wales.

History

The station opened by British Rail on 3 October 1983 to serve the new suburbs of Runcorn New Town. It is situated a short distance from the site of the former Norton station and the nearby signal box still bears this name.
The station was formally adopted by the North Cheshire Rail Users group on 16 May 2008, under the Arriva Trains Wales Adopt a Station Initiative.

Facilities

Arriva began looking into the possibility of installing scrolling information screens on the platforms, with train running information in 2008. An initial site survey was carried out on 30 May 2008 with a follow up on 20 September 2008. A third site survey was carried out in January 2010; this also included a PA system being installed, looking at improving CCTV coverage over the station and improvements for disabled access to the station. On 17 January 2011 site work started on the installation of information screens on both platforms - these are now completed and operational.
The station has a staffed ticket office - this is staffed six days per week from the start of the morning peak until early afternoon. At other times tickets can be purchased from a self-service ticket machine near the main entrance, or on the train. Waiting shelters and bench seating is provided at platform level. Step-free access to both platforms is via ramps from the footbridge that links the ticket office and car park.

Services

Runcorn East is served by an hourly Transport for Wales service to Manchester Piccadilly via Warrington Bank Quay. Many of these are extended through to outside of weekday peak periods.
In the other direction, services run to Chester, with most trains continuing along the North Wales Coast Line to Llandudno. The Sutton tunnel is just west of the station.
The new Northern Trains Northern Connect service, between and Chester via Manchester Victoria and Halifax, calls at weekday peak periods only since its inauguration in May 2019.

Public transport interchange

bus services operate from the station to Runcorn Old Town via Halton Lea, and to Widnes. The station is also connected by an Arriva North West bus service to the main Runcorn railway station, which has services to London Euston, Birmingham New Street, Crewe and Liverpool via the West Coast Main Line.

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