Minshull Vernon railway station

Minshull Vernon
General information
LocationCheshire East
England
Coordinates53°09′21″N 2°28′16″W / 53.15575°N 2.47103°W / 53.15575; -2.47103
Grid referenceSJ 686 622
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Opened4 July 1837 (1837-07-04)
Closed2 March 1942 (1942-03-02)
Original companyGrand Junction Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway

Minshull Vernon railway station was a station on the Grand Junction Railway serving the villages of Warmington and Minshull Vernon. It opened on 4 July 1837 when the line opened.[1]

Wishaw (1842) describes the intermediate stations on the line, such as this one, as "built in the cottage style, and without any pretensions to studied design".[2]

The station is located on the south side of Nantwich Road (Middlewich Road a little to the south) which is now the A530. The road crossed the railway on an over-bridge, with steps down to each platform. The main station building appears to be on the up platform, to the east of the lines.[3]

In the early years the station had two mixed trains in each direction. Times changed from year to year. By 1850 an additional morning train to Liverpool had been added.[a][4][5][6]

The station was awarded a "Special Class" prize of £10 in the LMS station garden competition of 1925.[7]

By 1939 the lines through the station had been quadrupled with the fast lines in the centre and the slow lines on the outside. Platforms were only provided on the outside of the slow lines.[8]

The station closed in 1942.[9]

The station buildings were demolished in the 1960s.

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Coppenhall   London and North Western Railway
Grand Junction Railway 		  Winsford
  1. ^ Osborne & Osborne 1838, p. 43.
  2. ^ Whishaw 1842, p. 128.
  3. ^ "Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Cheshire XLIX.7 (Minshull Vernon; Tetton; Warmingham; Wimboldsley)". National Library of Scotland. 1909. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  4. ^ Drake 1837, p. 96.
  5. ^ Osborne & Osborne 1838, pp. 66-67 & 86.
  6. ^ Bradshaw 2012, pp. 34–37.
  7. ^ "What the railways are doing". The Railway Magazine (343): 77. January 1926.
  8. ^ "The why and the wherefore". The Railway Magazine. 85 (506): 140. August 1939.
  9. ^ Quick 2022, p. 318.


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