Mouldsworth railway station

Mouldsworth
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Location
Place	Mouldsworth
Local authority	Cheshire West and Chester
Grid reference	SJ512707
Operations
Station code	MLD
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	11,728
2005/06	13,663
2006/07	13,674
2007/08	17,407
2008/09	20,762
2009/10	23,796
2010/11	28,626
2011/12	31,552
2012/13	31,870
2013/14	31,646
2014/15	29,940
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Mouldsworth from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Mouldsworth railway station serves the village of Mouldsworth in Cheshire, England. It is managed by Northern Rail.

Train services run between Manchester Piccadilly and Chester.

History

Services used to run to the CLC terminus at Chester Northgate, but were diverted to the former Chester General after Northgate closed in October 1969.

The station used to be a request stop but this status was removed some years ago.

The signal box here was decommissioned and demolished in 2006, control of the line then passing to Mickle Trafford box. The station was once a junction, the line to Chester diverging to the west and the original West Cheshire Railway line to Helsby and Alvanley to the north west. The Helsby line was lifted during the early 2000s, several years after a fire at the West Cheshire Junction signal box at the other end of the line rendered the junction there unusable (the line officially closing in September 1991).

Services

There is a basic hourly service in each direction Monday to Saturday, with two additional weekday peak trains to and from Stockport. On Sundays there is a two-hourly service each way, with eastbound trains running through to Manchester, Wigan Wallgate and Southport.

External links

• Train times and station information for Mouldsworth railway station from National Rail
• Mid-Cheshire Community Rail Partnership

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Chester		Northern Rail Mid-Cheshire Line		Delamere
	Disused railways
Manley Line and station closed		Cheshire Lines Committee West Cheshire Line		Terminus
	Historical railways
Barrow for Tarvin Line open, station closed		Cheshire Lines Committee West Cheshire Line		Delamere Line and station open