Willington  | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Willington, South Derbyshire England | ||||
| Coordinates | 52°51′14″N 1°33′47″W / 52.854°N 1.563°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SK294285 | ||||
| Managed by | East Midlands Railway[1] | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | WIL | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 12 August 1839 | Opened as Willington | ||||
| 1 October 1855 | Renamed Willington and Repton | ||||
| 1 May 1877 | Renamed Repton and Willington | ||||
| 1 October 1899 | Renamed Willington for Repton | ||||
| Unknown | Renamed Repton and Willington | ||||
| 4 March 1968 | Closed[2] | ||||
| 1 April 1994 | Reopened as Willington | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  37,168 | ||||
| 2019/20 | 38,786 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  9,160 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 35,542 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 27,674 | ||||
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Willington railway station (formerly known as Willington and Repton, Willington for Repton and Repton and Willington) serves the village of Willington in Derbyshire, England. The station is 6¼ miles (10 km) south-west of Derby on the Cross Country Route. The station is operated by East Midlands Railway but none of their services calls here. Only CrossCountry services call at the station.
The original station was opened in 1839 by the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway on its original route from Derby to Hampton-in-Arden, meeting the London and Birmingham Railway for London.
The station was renamed Repton and Willington in 1855, with a notice on the platform: "Alight here for Repton School".[2][3] The station closed in 1968 as part of the Beeching Axe, before being reopened in 1994.
It was planned that both platforms will be extended by up to 16 metres by no later than 2012.[4][needs update]
- ^ "Willington (WIL)". National Rail.
- ^ a b Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
- ^ Pixton, B., (2005) Birmingham-Derby: Portrait of a Famous Route, Runpast Publishing
- ^ "Network Rail CP4 Delivery Plan 2009 Enhancements programme: statement of scope, outputs and milestones" (PDF). Network Rail. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2010.