GLAZEBROOK Railway Station, Warrington, won an award in the annual Cheshire Best Kept Station competition.
The station won the award for the best-kept station in Warrington and Halton.
The overall winner in the competition – which was celebrating its 21st anniversary – was Alderley Edge.
The awards were presented by Prof Paul Salveson, a leading figure in the community rail movement, at a ceremony in Northwich.
Cheshire is the only county to have a best-kept station award.
Glazebrook Railway station, operated by Northern Trains, dates from 1873. It serves the villages in the civil parish of Rixton-with-Glazebrook. It is used by about 24,000 passengers in a year.
The station building, opened on 2 September 1873 and is of typical Cheshire Lines Committee design.
Daytime services are roughly two hourly towards Birchwood and Liverpool Lime Street and two hourly towards Irlam and Manchester Oxford Road. There are additional peak services, but no Sunday services
