Greenbank railway station
Greenbank 
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| Location | |
| Place | Hartford, Cheshire |
| Local authority | Cheshire West and Chester |
| Grid reference | SJ644728 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | GBK |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 116,812 |
| 2012/13 |
172,340 |
| 2013/14 |
177,430 |
| 2014/15 |
185,278 |
| 2015/16 |
209,350 |
| History | |
| Original company | West Cheshire Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Cheshire Lines Committee |
| Post-grouping | Cheshire Lines Committee |
| 22 June 1870 | Station opened to passengers as 'Hartford & Greenbank' |
| 7 May 1973 | Name changed to 'Greenbank' |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Greenbank from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Greenbank railway station serves the village of Hartford, Cheshire as well as the Greenbank and Castle areas of Northwich, Cheshire, England. The station is situated on the A559 road from Northwich to Chester.
The station was built by the West Cheshire Railway, a constituent of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) and opened to passengers on 22 June 1870. The CLC continued to operate both goods and passenger services from the station, unaffected by the railway grouping of 1923, until the railway nationalisation of 1948. The station name was Hartford and Greenbank until 7 May 1973 when British Railways renamed the station Greenbank, to avoid confusion with the nearby Hartford station on the West Coast Main Line. Greenbank was served by CLC trains from Manchester Central via Northwich to Chester Northgate. From the closure of Manchester Central on 5 May 1969 & Chester Northgate on 6 October that year, trains from Greenbank were diverted to Manchester Oxford Road and the LNWR & GWR Joint Chester station, previously Chester General.
CLC trains were headed by locomotives in LNER livery. A link to LMS service was made by a shuttle service to Acton Bridge using LMS stock (this normally continued via Northwich, Middlewich & Sandbach to Crewe). This service was nicknamed "The Dodger", but was withdrawn in 1942.
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