Sandbach railway station

Sandbach railway station serves the town of Sandbach in Cheshire, England. The station is  miles (8 km) north-east of Crewe on the Crewe to Manchester Line. Although the station is named Sandbach, it is sited in the local residential suburb of Elworth on the A533 road, which links the town with Middlewich and Northwich. History Sandbach was a double junction on the LNWR and later London Midland and Scottish Railway line from Crewe to Manchester. For many years, Sandbach was a junction for the single line branch to Middlewich and Northwich railway station; opening on 1 July 1868, it closed for passenger service in January 1960, but it still carries freight on a daily basis. Even earlier, the North Staffordshire Railway branch from Kidsgrove to Sandbach via Lawton Junction ceased passenger service in July 1930 and closed to freight traffic in 1964. In 1998 the station underwent a £750,000 refurbishment by North Western Trains.