Greenbank railway station

Greenbank railway station serves the village of Hartford, Cheshire as well as the Greenbank and Castle areas of Northwich, Cheshire, England. The station is situated on the A559 road from Northwich to Chester. History The station was built by the West Cheshire Railway, a constituent of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) and opened to passengers on 22 June 1870. The CLC continued to operate both goods and passenger services from the station, unaffected by the railway grouping of 1923, until the railway nationalisation of 1948. The station name was Hartford and Greenbank until 7 May 1973 when British Railways renamed the station Greenbank, to avoid confusion with the nearby station on the West Coast Main Line. Greenbank was served by CLC trains from Manchester Central via Northwich to . From the closure of Manchester Central on 5 May 1969 & Chester Northgate on 6 October that year, trains from Greenbank were diverted to and the LNWR & GWR Joint Chester station, previously Chester General. CLC trains were headed by locomotives in LNER livery. A link to LMS service was made by a shuttle service to using LMS stock (this normally continued via Northwich, Middlewich & to ). This service was nicknamed "The Dodger", but was withdrawn in 1942.