Minshull Vernon railway station

{{Short description|Former railway station in England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=September 2017}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Minshull Vernon

| status = Disused

| image =

| borough = Cheshire East

| country = England

| grid_name = Grid reference

| grid_position = {{gbmappingsmall|SJ 686 622}}

| coordinates = {{coord|53.15575|-2.47103|display=inline,title}}

| platforms = 2

| original = Grand Junction Railway

| pregroup = London and North Western Railway

| postgroup = London, Midland and Scottish Railway

| opened = {{Start date|1837|07|04|df=yes}}

| closed = {{end date|1942|03|02|df=yes}}

}}

Minshull Vernon railway station was a station on the Grand Junction Railway serving the villages of Warmington and Minshull Vernon. It opened on 4 July 1837 when the line opened.{{sfn|Osborne|Osborne|1838|p=43}}

Wishaw (1842) describes the intermediate stations on the line, such as this one, as "built in the cottage style, and without any pretensions to studied design".{{sfn|Whishaw|1842|p=128}}

The station is located on the south side of Nantwich Road (Middlewich Road a little to the south) which is now the A530. The road crossed the railway on an over-bridge, with steps down to each platform. The main station building appears to be on the up platform, to the east of the lines.{{cite web|title=Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Cheshire XLIX.7 (Minshull Vernon; Tetton; Warmingham; Wimboldsley) |url=https://maps.nls.uk/view/114584674#zoom=5&lat=9261&lon=1617&layers=BT |website=National Library of Scotland |year=1909 |access-date=17 June 2021}}

In the early years the station had two mixed trains in each direction. Times changed from year to year. By 1850 an additional morning train to Liverpool had been added.{{efn|Mixed trains at this time meant a mixture of first and second class carriages and the train probably stopped at every station. By contrast first class trains has only first class carriages and stopped at only first class stations}}{{sfn|Drake|1837|p=96}}{{sfn|Osborne|Osborne|1838|pp=66-67 & 86}}{{sfn|Bradshaw|2012|pp=34—37}}

The station was awarded a "Special Class" prize of £10 in the LMS station garden competition of 1925.{{cite magazine |title=What the railways are doing |magazine=The Railway Magazine |date=January 1926 |issue=343 |page=77 }}

By 1939 the lines through the station had been quadrupled with the fast lines in the centre and the slow lines on the outside. Platforms were only provided on the outside of the slow lines.{{cite magazine |title=The why and the wherefore |magazine=The Railway Magazine |date=August 1939 |issue=506 |volume=85 |page=140 }}

The station closed in 1942.{{sfn|Quick|2022|p=318}}

The station buildings were demolished in the 1960s.

{{Historical Rail Start}}

{{Rail line|previous=Coppenhall|next=Winsford|route=London and North Western Railway
Grand Junction Railway |col={{LNWR colour}} }}

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