Warrington West is a railway station on the Liverpool–Manchester line. The station, situated 17 miles (27 km) east of Liverpool Lime Street, serves the civil parish of Great Sankey, Warrington in Cheshire, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

Warrington West
General information
Location	Great Sankey, Warrington England
Coordinates	53°23′37″N 2°38′13″W
Owned by	Network Rail
Operated by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Other information
Station code	WAW
History
Original company	Network Rail
Key dates
16 December 2019	Opened
Passengers
2019/20	83,902
2020/21	68,936
Location
Warrington West Location in Cheshire, England
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

It is served by bus services and has parking for 287 cars.[1] The station is located west of Warrington on the existing southern Liverpool–Manchester line, between Sankey for Penketh and Warrington Central.

History

Warrington Borough Council applied for funding from the Government's New Stations Fund^[when?] but the bid failed.[2] 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 16 December 2019.[3][4]

Services

The station opened on 15 December 2019. It had two trains each hour in each direction calling here off peak (including Sundays) - one express between Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Airport via Manchester Piccadilly and one stopping train between Lime Street and Manchester Oxford Road. Extra trains called at peak times.[5] This was one train per hour fewer than Northern had promised in its franchise bid. The COVID-19 crisis saw services reduced to one per hour, and this will not be changed until the new timetable in December 2022.[6]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Sankey for Penketh		Northern Trains Manchester to Liverpool Line		Warrington Central
Widnes

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