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]}

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 2024^[update] 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 or Tamworth for services to London Euston operated by Avanti West Coast and London North Western Railway 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			Following station
Burton-on-Trent		CrossCountry Cardiff – Birmingham – Nottingham Mondays-Saturdays only		Derby

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

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Willington railway station.

• Train times and station information for Willington railway station from National Rail

This page was last edited on 4 April 2024, at 14:56