Willington railway station

Willington
General information
Location	Willington, South Derbyshire England
Coordinates	52°51′14″N 1°33′47″W / 52.854°N 1.563°W / 52.854; -1.563
Grid reference	SK294285
Managed by	East Midlands Railway[1]
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	WIL
Classification	DfT category F2
Key dates
12 August 1839	Opened as Willington
1 October 1855	Renamed Willington and Repton
1 May 1877	Renamed Repton and Willington
1 October 1899	Renamed Willington for Repton
Unknown	Renamed Repton and Willington
4 March 1968	Closed[2]
1 April 1994	Reopened as Willington
Passengers
2018/19	37,168
2019/20	38,786
2020/21	9,160
2021/22	35,542
2022/23	27,674
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.

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][needs update]}