Minshull Vernon railway station

Former railway station in England

53°09′21″N 2°28′16″W / 53.15575°N 2.47103°W / 53.15575; -2.47103Grid referenceSJ 686 622Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOpened4 July 1837 (1837-07-04)Closed2 March 1942 (1942-03-02)Original companyGrand Junction RailwayPre-groupingLondon and North Western RailwayPost-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway

Minshull Vernon railway station was a station on the Grand Junction Railway serving the villages of Warmington and Minshull Vernon. It opened on 4 July 1837 when the line opened.^[1]

Wishaw (1842) describes the intermediate stations on the line, such as this one, as "built in the cottage style, and without any pretensions to studied design".^[2]

The station is located on the south side of Nantwich Road (Middlewich Road a little to the south) which is now the A530. The road crossed the railway on an over-bridge, with steps down to each platform. The main station building appears to be on the up platform, to the east of the lines.^[3]

In the early years the station had two mixed trains in each direction. Times changed from year to year. By 1850 an additional morning train to Liverpool had been added.^[a]^[4]^[5]^[6]

The station was awarded a "Special Class" prize of £10 in the LMS station garden competition of 1925.^[7]

By 1939 the lines through the station had been quadrupled with the fast lines in the centre and the slow lines on the outside. Platforms were only provided on the outside of the slow lines.^[8]

The station closed in 1942.^[9]

The station buildings were demolished in the 1960s.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Coppenhall		London and North Western Railway Grand Junction Railway		Winsford

References

Notes

^ Mixed trains at this time meant a mixture of first and second class carriages and the train probably stopped at every station. By contrast first class trains has only first class carriages and stopped at only first class stations

Citations

^ Osborne & Osborne 1838, p. 43.
^ Whishaw 1842, p. 128.
^ "Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Cheshire XLIX.7 (Minshull Vernon; Tetton; Warmingham; Wimboldsley)". National Library of Scotland. 1909. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
^ Drake 1837, p. 96.
^ Osborne & Osborne 1838, pp. 66-67 & 86.
^ Bradshaw 2012, pp. 34–37.
^ "What the railways are doing". The Railway Magazine (343): 77. January 1926.
^ "The why and the wherefore". The Railway Magazine. 85 (506): 140. August 1939.
^ Quick 2022, p. 318.

Bibliography

Bradshaw, George (2012) [March 1850]. Bradshaw's Rail Times for Great Britain and Ireland March 1850: A reprint of the classic timetable complete with period advertisements and shipping connections to all parts. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN 9781908174130.
Drake, James (1837). Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway from Birmingham to Liverpool & Manchester. Birmingham: James Drake.
Osborne, E.C.; Osborne, W. (1838). Osborne's guide to the Grand Junction, or Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester Railway (2nd ed.). London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
Whishaw, Francis (1842) [1840]. The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland practically described and illustrated (2nd ed.). London: John Weale (1840 publisher - Simpkin, Marshall & Co.). OCLC 36383414.