Runcorn East railway station

Runcorn East
Location
Place	Runcorn
Local authority	Halton
Grid reference	SJ557814
Operations
Station code	RUE
Managed by	Arriva Trains Wales
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	0.109 million
2005/06	0.108 million
2006/07	0.109 million
2007/08	0.120 million
2008/09	0.121 million
2009/10	0.136 million
2010/11	0.148 million
2011/12	0.153 million
2012/13	0.155 million
2013/14	0.164 million
2014/15	0.187 million
History
Key dates	Opened 3 October 1983
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Runcorn East from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Runcorn East railway station serves the eastern suburbs of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, and offers trains to Warrington and Manchester and to Chester and North Wales.

History

The station, which opened by British Rail on 3 October 1983,^[1] is situated a short distance from the site of the former Norton station (closed by the British Transport Commission in 1952) and the nearby signal box still bears this name.

The station was formally adopted by the North Cheshire Rail Users group on 16 May 2008, under the Arriva Trains Wales Adopt a Station Initiative.

Facilities

Arriva began looking into the possibility of installing scrolling information screens on the platforms, with train running information in 2008. An initial site survey was carried out on 30 May 2008 with a follow up on 20 September 2008. A third site survey was carried out in January 2010; this also included a PA system being installed, looking at improving CCTV coverage over the station and improvements for disabled access to the station. On 17 January 2011 site work started on the installation of information screens on both platforms - these are now completed and operational (as of May 2011).

Services

Runcorn East is served by the hourly Arriva Trains Wales service to Manchester Piccadilly via Warrington Bank Quay. Arriva Trains Wales are running some evening peak trains to Manchester Airport in the present (Dec 2015 - May 2016) timetable.^[2] They hope that in the near future that all Manchester bound services will terminate there.

In the other direction services run to Chester, with most trains continuing along the North Wales Coast Line to Llandudno (services terminate at Chester in the late evening & on Sundays) The 1 mile 125 yard long Sutton tunnel is just west of the station. There are also two services daily (one in the morning, and one in the evening) to Warrington Bank Quay from Ellesmere Port, operated by Northern. This doesn't run on Sundays. The planned new Arriva Rail North Northern Connect service between Leeds and Chester via Manchester Victoria and Halifax will also call here from December 2017.^[3]

Public transport interchange

Halton Transport bus services operate from the station to Runcorn Old Town via Halton Lea and to Widnes. The station is also connected by an Arriva bus service to the main Runcorn railway station (operated by Virgin Trains), which has services to London, Birmingham, Crewe and Liverpool via the West Coast Main Line.

Gallery

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  View from platform 2

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  Ticket office entrance

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  The station car park

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  The two footbridges

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  Looking down from the inner footbridge

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  Outer footbridge and passenger information

References

1. "Runcorn East opens". Rail Enthusiast (EMAP National Publications). December 1983. p. 14. ISSN 0262-561X. OCLC 49957965.
2. GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 81
3. Northern Franchise Improvements - Department for Transport

External links

• Train times and station information for Runcorn East railway station from National Rail

Coordinates: 53°19′37″N 2°39′54″W / 53.327°N 2.665°W