Birchwood railway station


Birchwood railway station is a railway station opened in 1981 by British Rail, serving the Birchwood district to the north east of Warrington, Cheshire, in the north west of England. The station is East of Liverpool Lime Street railway station and 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 manned full-time. It is across from the main Birchwood shopping complex and is well served by onward transportation to all parts of Birchwood and further afield.

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, and two of an evening. When the ticket office is closed there are 2 ticket machines in the station building on platform 1 and 1 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.

Services

The station sees a general frequency of three trains per hour per direction, all now provided by Northern Trains:
TPE services stopped calling there in May 2018, as a result of the new Northern & TransPennine Express franchise agreements coming into effect in spring 2016. All services are now provided by Northern Trains,. The fast service runs to and from and will be eventually marketed under the Northern Connect brand.