Willington railway station

Willington
National Rail
General information
LocationWillington, South Derbyshire
England
Coordinates52°51′14″N 1°33′47″W / 52.854°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
2018/19Increase 37,168
2019/20Increase 38,786
2020/21Decrease 9,160
2021/22Increase 35,542
2022/23Decrease 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]

  1. ^ "Willington (WIL)". National Rail.
  2. ^ a b 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.