Willington railway station

Willington railway station (formerly known as Willington and Repton, Willington for Repton and Repton and Willington) serves the village of Willington in Derbyshire, England. The station is 6¼ miles (10 km) south-west of Derby on the Cross Country Route. The station is operated by East Midlands Railway but none of their services calls here. Only CrossCountry services call at the station.

For other uses, see Willington railway station (disambiguation).

Willington
National Rail
General information
LocationWillington, South Derbyshire
England
Coordinates52.854°N 1.563°W / 52.854; -1.563
Grid referenceSK294285
Managed byEast Midlands Railway[1]
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeWIL
ClassificationDfT category F2
Key dates
12 August 1839Opened as Willington
1 October 1855Renamed Willington and Repton
1 May 1877Renamed Repton and Willington
1 October 1899Renamed Willington for Repton
UnknownRenamed Repton and Willington
4 March 1968Closed[2]
1 April 1994Reopened as Willington
Passengers
2017/18Increase 35,140
2018/19Increase 37,168
2019/20Increase 38,786
2020/21Decrease 9,160
2021/22Increase 35,542
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The original station was opened in 1839 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway on its original route from Derby to Hampton-in-Arden, meeting the London and Birmingham Railway for London.

The station was renamed Repton and Willington in 1855, with a notice on the platform: "Alight here for Repton School".[2][3] The station closed in 1968 as part of the Beeching Axe, before being reopened in 1994.

It was planned that both platforms will be extended by up to 16 metres by no later than 2012.[4]

Services

All services are operated by CrossCountry. East Midlands Railway operate the station but none of their trains call here.[5] The present station was constructed in 1994. It was planned as part of the Ivanhoe line which would run through to Loughborough, but as of 2023 this has yet to come to fruition.

During their franchise, East Midlands Trains ran a couple of semi-fast services from Burton upon Trent to London St Pancras. The last London service to call at Willington was on Saturday 13 September 2008. Passengers for London must now change at Birmingham New Street for Avanti West Coast services to London Euston, at Tamworth for London North Western Railway services to Euston or at Derby for the original East Midlands Railway services to London St Pancras.

Services operate several times each day in each direction northbound to Nottingham via Derby and southbound to Cardiff Central via Birmingham New Street, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucester and Newport, running a primarily structured two-hourly service from around 07:00 to around 15:00. From 15:00, services operate three-hourly (one in each direction around 21:00 with the final service running northbound only towards Nottingham at 23:46). There is an hourly service towards Nottingham during the morning peak.[6]

There is no Sunday service.

Despite being one stop down the line from Peartree, there is no direct connection between the two stations.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
CrossCountry
Mondays-Saturdays only

History

The station opened on 26 May 1995 at a cost of £565,000, which was funded by Derbyshire County Council with a contribution from South Derbyshire District Council.[7] The station, which is near to a facility for Toyota, was intended to be part of the Loughborough-Burton-Derby line, known as the Ivanhoe line.[7] Unit 150 101 formed the first service from the station.[7]

References
  1. "Willington (WIL)". National Rail.
  2. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  3. Pixton, B., (2005) Birmingham-Derby: Portrait of a Famous Route, Runpast Publishing
  4. "Network Rail CP4 Delivery Plan 2009 Enhancements programme: statement of scope, outputs and milestones" (PDF). Network Rail. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
  5. "Willington (WIL)". East Midlands Railway.
  6. "Stansted, Cambridge & Nottingham to Birmingham & Cardiff - Sunday 21 May 2023 – Saturday 09 December 2023" (PDF). Cross Country Trains.
  7. Abbott, James, ed. (July 1995). "Three new stations in summer timetable". Modern Railways. 52 (562): 388.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Willington railway station.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.