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Birchwood
Birchwood railway station, July 2018
General information
Location	Birchwood, Warrington England
Coordinates	53°24′45″N 2°31′31″W / 53.4124°N 2.5253°W / 53.4124; -2.5253
Grid reference	SJ651908
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BWD
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	July 1981
Passengers
2019/20	0.600 million
2020/21	0.120 million
2021/22	0.330 million
2022/23	0.359 million
2023/24	0.372 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Birchwood railway station is a railway station serving the town of Birchwood, Cheshire, England. The station is 24+1⁄4 miles (39.0 km) east of Liverpool Lime Street and 13+1⁄4 miles (21.3 km) west of Manchester Piccadilly on the Liverpool-Manchester line.

The station is operated by Northern Trains and is on the southern route of the Liverpool–Manchester Line. It is staffed full-time (between 06:10 and 23:45 Mondays–Saturdays and 08:25 and 23:20 on Sundays).

Facilities

There is sheltered seating on both platforms, with a ticket office with seating on the Manchester-bound platform. A footbridge connects the two platforms. Outside the station there is a bus stop and the station is close to the Birchwood shopping mall.

The ticket office is open until 22:00, though it does occasionally close during the day whilst staff carry out other duties. During the daytime there are three staff members on the station (station clerk, kiosk and a cleaner), and two of an evening (station clerk and a security guard). When the ticket office is closed there are two ticket machines in the station building on platform 1 and one in the waiting room on platform 2. Train running information is provided by automated announcements, digital information screens and timetable posters. Step-free access is available via lifts on both platforms (commissioned in the autumn of 2014).

Services

The station sees a general frequency of three to four trains per hour in each direction. As of December 2022, services are provided by Northern Trains and TransPennine Express, with limited East Midlands Railway calls at certain points of the day.

Northern

• One train per hour to Manchester Oxford Road via Irlam (serving most local stations)
• One train per hour to Liverpool Lime Street via Warrington Central (stopping only at some local stations en route)

Most stopping trains originating from Liverpool Lime Street now terminate at Warrington Central.

TransPennine Express

• One train per hour to Cleethorpes via Manchester Piccadilly, Sheffield and Doncaster.
• One fast train per hour to Liverpool Lime Street, stopping only at Warrington Central and Liverpool South Parkway, with limited calls at Warrington West railway station.

East Midlands Railway

• Two morning peak trains to Norwich
• One train per day to Liverpool Lime Street

The TPE service replaces the former Northern Connect one to Manchester Airport, which was withdrawn in December 2022 as part of plans to alleviate congestion in the "Castlefield Corridor" section of route through the centre of Manchester. This has also seen the number of Northern local trains to Manchester Oxford Road cut from two per hour to one (though there is still a half-hourly service at peak times).

History

The station was officially opened by British Rail Chairman Sir Peter Parker on 31 July 1981. Constructed at a cost of £750,000, it was the result of cooperation between British Rail, Warrington New Town Development Corporation, Warrington Borough Council and local bus companies. Bus interchange facilities were provided at the station, which served a developing residential and commercial area. The initial service provision was fifty trains per day.

References

1. Birchwood station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 12 December 2016
2. Easier access for passengers at Birchwood Network Rail Media Centre article; Retrieved 12 December 2016
3. Table 86 National Rail timetable, May 2023
4. ^ Long, Charles, ed. (September 1981). "Official opening of Birchwood station". Modern Railways. 38 (396): 389.

External links

• Train times and station information for Birchwood railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Padgate		Northern TrainsLiverpool-Manchester Line		Glazebrook
Warrington Central		East Midlands RailwayLiverpool-NorwichPeak Hours only		Manchester Oxford Road
Warrington Central		Northern TrainsLiverpool-Manchester Airport		Manchester Oxford Road
Warrington Central		TransPennine Express South TransPennine		Irlam
				Manchester Oxford Road

v t e Railway stations in Cheshire
West Coast Main Line	Crewe Winsford Hartford Acton Bridge Warrington Bank Quay
Crewe–Manchester line	Crewe Sandbach Holmes Chapel Goostrey Chelford Alderley Edge Wilmslow Handforth
Styal line	Alderley Edge Wilmslow Styal
Crewe–Derby line	Crewe Alsager
Stoke–Manchester line	Congleton Macclesfield Prestbury Adlington Poynton
Buxton line	Disley
Mid-Cheshire line	Ashley Mobberley Knutsford Plumley Lostock Gralam Northwich Greenbank Cuddington Delamere Mouldsworth
CLC Liverpool–Manchester line	Glazebrook Birchwood Padgate Warrington Central Warrington West Sankey Widnes Hough Green
Chester–Warrington line	Chester Helsby Frodsham Runcorn East Warrington Bank Quay
Hooton–Helsby line	Hooton Little Sutton Overpool Ellesmere Port Stanlow and Thornton(Service Suspended) Ince and Elton Helsby
Chester–Birkenhead line	Chester Bache Capenhurst Hooton
Welsh Marches line	Crewe Nantwich Wrenbury
Borderlands line	Neston
Shrewsbury–Chester line	Chester
Crewe–Liverpool line	Runcorn
Cheshire portal • Transport portal

1. https://www.eastmidlandsrailway.co.uk/media/3150/download?inline

• Railway stations in Warrington
• DfT Category D stations
• Railway stations opened by British Rail
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1981
• Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway
• Railway stations served by Northern
• Railway stations served by TransPennine Express