Mobberley railway station

Mobberley railway station serves the village of Mobberley in Cheshire, England. It is to the north of the village and is managed by Northern Trains. The station is 18½ miles (30 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly on the Mid-Cheshire line towards Chester.

Mobberley
Entrance to Mobberley railway station in 2005
General information
Location	Mobberley, Cheshire England
Grid reference	SJ778814
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	MOB
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	1862
Passengers
2019/20	21,496
2020/21	5,282
2021/22	15,376
2022/23	16,690
2023/24	19,578
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

Mobberley railway station in 1990

The station was opened on 12 May 1862 by the Cheshire Midland Railway which was absorbed by the Cheshire Lines Committee on 15 August 1867. The station passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.

The station retains many of its original features and buildings, although these have been converted for residential use.

Facilities

The station is (like the majority of those on the line) unstaffed and has no ticket machine, so all tickets must be purchased in advance of travel or on the train. The main building is in private commercial use, but there are brick shelters on each platform, along with CIS displays, timetable poster boards and a bike rack on platform 2. A pay phone at the entrance can also be used to request train running information. Step-free access to both platforms is available via ramps from the level crossing at the Manchester end of the station.^[1] This retains its staffed signal box.^[2]

Services

There is an hourly service westbound to Chester and eastbound to Manchester Piccadilly Monday to Saturday. On Sundays there is now a two-hourly service to Chester and to Southport via Manchester Piccadilly.^[3] Mobberley was, until 12 December 2010, a request stop only.

References

1. Mobberley station facilities National Rail Enquiries
2. "Mobberley Level Crossing Box" (2013) Dixon, David Geograph.org.uk; Retrieved 10 July 2017
3. Table 88 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2013). Chester Northgate to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 60-63. ISBN 9781908174512. OCLC 892704846.

External links

• Train times and station information for Mobberley railway station from National Rail
• Mid-Cheshire Community Rail Partnership

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Knutsford		Northern Trains Mid-Cheshire Line		Ashley

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