The station has four platforms with disabled access to all but platform 1, the northbound Styal line platform, two waiting rooms, public toilets and also has a double-staffed booking office below the platforms.
History
Both the Main Line and the Styal line were electrified in 1959 as part of the West Coast Main Line electrification and modernisation programme with the construction and installation of a state of the art signal box and control centre near the end of the Styal line down platform at Wilmslow and serving virtually the entire railway from Crewe to Manchester via both routes. The complexity of that installation was not repeated for the remainder of the electrification scheme, which had its control and signalling systems renewed in ways that were less highly automated.
In March 1997, the Provisional IRA exploded two bombs in relay boxes near this signal box, causing disruption to rail and road services.[1] The railway reopened the following day. In April 2006, as part of the total renewal of the railway from Crewe to Cheadle Hulme near Stockport, the large 1959 signal box was demolished.[2]
Large-scale resignalling of the line through Wilmslow was completed behind schedule in the Autumn of 2006.
On Sundays, there are hourly main line services to South Wales and London but the local routes run less frequently i.e. two trains per hour to Manchester Piccadilly - one via Stockport and one via Manchester Airport continuing to Liverpool Lime Street via Chat Moss. Southbound there is an hourly local stopping service to Crewe. The service from Liverpool Lime Street terminates here.
The economic case for High Speed 2 Phase 1 includes one train per hour each way stopping at Wilmslow, travelling between London Euston and Manchester Piccadilly.[4]
References
^Jenkins, Russell; Tendler, Stewart (27 March 1997). "Security tightened as police warn of further attacks". The Times. No. 65848. p. 2. ISSN0140-0460.
^ abStations in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees are considered part of North East England, while stations in the unitary areas of York and North Yorkshire are considered part of Yorkshire and the Humber.
^Stations in North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire are considered part of Yorkshire and the Humber, while all other stations are considered part of the East Midlands.
