Hartford railway station

This article is about the railway station in Cheshire. For the station in Connecticut, see Union Station (Hartford).

Not to be confused with Hertford North railway station or Hertford East railway station.

Hartford

Location
Place	Hartford
Local authority	Borough of Cheshire West and Chester
Grid reference	SJ631717
Operations
Station code	HTF
Managed by	London Midland
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2005/06	89,523
2006/07	0.106 million
2007/08	0.128 million
2008/09	0.156 million
2009/10	0.170 million
2010/11	0.201 million
2011/12	0.210 million
2012/13	0.219 million
2013/14	0.230 million
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hartford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Hartford railway station is in the village of Hartford, in Cheshire, England. It is situated on the A559 road approximately two miles (3.2 km) west of the town of Northwich.

History

The station in 1961

Hartford station was built by the Grand Junction Railway (GJR)^[1]^:55 and opened in September 1837.^[2] The GJR became a constituent of the newly formed London and North Western Railway on 16 July 1846,^[3] which in turn was absorbed by the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSR) in 1923. The LMSR was nationalised within British Railways on 1 January 1948 and the station and its train services were thereafter operated by the London Midland Region of BR. The station buildings were greatly rationalised at the time of the West Coast electrification in the 1960s.

Facilities

The station is in a cutting with steps down from the car park. There is a ramp for wheelchairs but it is very steep. The station is staffed. There are bus stops and a public phone box on the road. The centre of the village of Hartford is about 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to the east, about 10–15 minutes walk.

Greenbank railway station is about 1 mile (1.6 km) away (nearer to Northwich) on the Mid-Cheshire Line from Chester to Manchester Piccadilly.

The station underwent upgrades in the Spring of 2011. The upgrades included new voice announcements, live arrivals and departure boards and electronic systems.

Network Rail delivered more improvements to the station in the summer of 2014. These improvements ranged from replacing the station roof, resurfaced platforms and a new station footbridge.

Services

The station is served by trains to/from Stafford, Crewe, Birmingham New Street and Liverpool Lime Street. From the May 2013 timetable, one train per hour each way called throughout the week (including Sundays).^[4]

In the current (May 2016) timetable, a further one train per hour heading towards Birmingham New Street now calls at the station, resulting in an uneven balance of two trains per hour to Birmingham and one per hour to Liverpool for most of the day during the week.^[5] On Saturdays, an even two trains per hour in each direction call at Hartford, with an hourly service on evenings and Sundays.

References

Notes

↑ Drake, James (1838). Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway (1838). Moorland Reprints. ISBN 0903485257.
↑ Butt 1995, p. 114
↑ Awdry 1990, p. 78
↑ GB National Rail Timetable May 2013, Table 65
↑ Table 91 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Bibliography

Awdry, Christopher (1990), Encyclopedia of British Railway Companies, Guild Publishing CN8983
Butt, R.V.J. (1995), The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens, ISBN 1-85260-508-1

External links

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Train times and station information for Hartford railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail		Following station
Winsford or Crewe		London Midland West Coast Main Line	Acton Bridge or Runcorn
	Historical railways
Winsford		London and North Western Railway Grand Junction Railway	Acton Bridge

Railway stations in Cheshire

West Coast Main Line	Crewe Winsford Hartford Acton Bridge Warrington Bank Quay Runcorn

Crewe to Manchester Line	Crewe Sandbach Holmes Chapel Goostrey Chelford Alderley Edge Wilmslow Handforth

Styal Line	Alderley Edge Wilmslow Styal

Crewe to Derby Line	Crewe Alsager

Stoke to Manchester Line	Congleton Macclesfield Prestbury Adlington Poynton

Buxton Line	Disley

Mid-Cheshire Line	Ashley Mobberley Knutsford Plumley Lostock Gralam Northwich Greenbank Cuddington Delamere Mouldsworth Chester

Manchester to Liverpool Line	Glazebrook Birchwood Padgate Warrington Central West Warrington (proposed) Sankey Widnes Hough Green

Ellesmere Port to Warrington Line	Ellesmere Port Stanlow and Thornton Ince and Elton Helsby Frodsham Runcorn East Warrington Bank Quay

Wirral Line	Chester Bache Capenhurst Hooton Little Sutton Overpool Ellesmere Port

Welsh Marches Line	Crewe Nantwich Wrenbury

Borderlands Line	Neston

Shrewsbury to Chester Line	Chester Lache (proposed)

Coordinates: 53°14′31″N 2°33′14″W / 53.242°N 2.554°W / 53.242; -2.554

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