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Warrington Bank Quay railway station is one of two railway stations serving the town of Warrington in Cheshire, England. Warrington Bank Quay is a mainline station on one side of the main shopping area, with Warrington Central on the other side operating a more frequent service to the neighbouring cities of Liverpool and Manchester. A bus shuttle service operates every 20 minutes Monday to Friday daytime between the two, also linking the offices of the North West Development Agency on the Centre Park business park. Nevertheless, Bank Quay suffers from a lack of bus links to other parts of Warrington. It does, however, have a large car park and a taxi rank. In 2009 the station was identified as one of the ten worst category B interchange stations for mystery shopper assessment of fabric and environment, and is set to receive a share of £50m funding for improvements. ==Layout== The station consists of two island platforms. The easternmost one has 19th century buildings, but the western platform has buildings dating from the 1950s. Passengers enter the station at street level through a functional modern entrance containing an information office and ticket office, and proceed through a subway, reaching the elevated platforms by stairs or a lift. There is a buffet on the eastern platform. Platform 1 is used for arrivals from, and departures to, Liverpool (these trains terminate at the platform), and occasionally for North Wales services. Platform 2 is generally used for North Wales services, and for southbound intercity services to Birmingham New Street and London Euston. Platform 3 is used for northbound intercity services to Edinburgh and Glasgow Central, and platform 4 for services from North Wales to Manchester. The platforms are not bi-directional, except that the up slow line is bi-directional between the station and Winwick Junction, some to the north, and this allows northbound (down) departures from platform 1, using the reversible up slow as far as Winwick. The present platform 4 was numbered 5 for many years, because there used to be a north-facing bay platform in the west island which was numbered 4, but this saw no passenger use after electrification in 1972 and was removed later. The station's best known landmark is the huge Unilever detergent manufacturing plant which stands overlooking the site. The station suffered from years of neglect and, because of this, Virgin Trains announced improvements to the station. In 2009, an extension to the existing car park and a new taxi rank were built, along with improvements to the platforms and a new ticket office and travel centre. The new entrance hall is now complete, with ticket office and newsagent. The buffet on the London bound platforms has been modernised, however a first class lounge is yet to materialise. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Warrington Bank Quay railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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