Warrington West railway station


Warrington West railway station serves the Omega Development Site and Chapelford urban village housing estate in Great Sankey, Warrington, England. It has an interchange for bus services as well as a park and ride with parking for 287 cars.
The station is located west of central Warrington on the existing southern Liverpool to Manchester Line route between Sankey and Warrington Central stations.

Project development

Warrington Borough Council applied for funding from the government's New Stations Fund but the bid failed. However, the council secured part of the funding through other sources and a planning application was approved in 2015, and it was hoped that construction could begin in 2016, until Network Rail increased the estimated cost by £4 million. A fresh bid to the New Stations Fund was successful, and the station opened on 15 December 2019.

Services

Since the beginning of the winter 2019 timetable on 15 December, the station has had two trains each hour in both directions calling here off peak - one express between Liverpool Lime Street and via Manchester Piccadilly and one stopping train between Lime Street and. Extra trains call at peak times.