Sandbach railway station


Sandbach railway station serves the town of Sandbach in Cheshire, England. The station is 4¾ miles north east of Crewe on the Crewe to Manchester Line.
Although the station is called "Sandbach railway station", the actual location of the station is on the A533 road from Sandbach to Middlewich and Northwich in the local residential suburb of Elworth.

History

Sandbach was a double junction on the LNWR and later London Midland and Scottish Railway line from Crewe to Manchester. For many years, Sandbach was a junction for the single line branch to Middlewich and Northwich railway station; opening on 1 July 1868, it closed for passenger service in January 1960, but it still carries freight on a daily basis. Even earlier, the North Staffordshire Railway branch from Kidsgrove to Sandbach via Lawton Junction ceased passenger service in July 1930 and closed to freight traffic in 1964.

Services

On Monday to Saturday during the daytime there are two trains per hour to Crewe southbound, one per hour to Manchester Piccadilly and one per hour to Liverpool Lime Street northbound. The Piccadilly service goes via Stockport and the Liverpool service via Styal and St Helens Junction. There is an hourly service during the evening in each direction via Stockport.
On Sundays there is a two-hourly service in each direction, northbound via Stockport.
Sandbach has three platforms :-
The station has a ticket office on platform 1; this is manned part-time on Mondays to Saturdays only. Outside these times, tickets must be purchased prior to travel or on board the train. A waiting room on platforms 2 and 3 is open at the times the station is staffed, whilst there are shelters on both sides. Train running details are offered via timetable posters, digital CIS displays and by telephone. No step-free access is available, as the footbridge to platforms 2 and 3 does not have ramps and the Crewe platform has steps from the car park.