Mouldsworth railway station

Mouldsworth railway station opened on 22 June 1870 and serves the village of Mouldsworth in Cheshire, England. It is managed by Northern Trains. The station has two platforms and is on the Mid Cheshire Line, with hourly train services to Manchester Piccadilly and Chester. History The station and railway here first opened in 1869 for goods and 1870 for passengers, on the line from to West Cheshire Junction (near Helsby); the extension line from here to Chester was added in November 1874 (1 May 1875 for passengers). At the same time passenger services on the Helsby line, via Manley, ceased and Manley station was closed to passengers, however the line remained open for freight until 1991 and Mouldsworth Junction was managed by a signal box at the end of the platform. Mouldsworth station had a coal yard which opened in March 1871, and from here James Lowe delivered coal to many villages in the local area. The coal yard was in use until at least 1954, as it was listed at that time by the National Coal Board. The coal yard, goods yard (including goods shed), and sidings on both sides of the track were controlled by a second signal box, which went out of use in 1967 and is now in use at Chinnor on the Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway. Next to the station was the Station Hotel opened around May 1882, and now named the Goshawk, which is a name it has carried from at least the 1970s. The hotel has had a bowling green next to it since at least 1891. Services used to run to the CLC terminus at Chester Northgate, but this closed in October 1969. Trains henceforth used a connection onto the former Birkenhead Joint Railway main line at Mickle Trafford (where the two lines ran adjacent to each other) to reach Chester General. As part of this rationalisation work, the Mouldsworth to Mickle Trafford section was also reduced to a single line. In the opposite direction, the closure of earlier that year saw eastbound services diverted to start/terminate at .