The station was served by passenger trains from Manchester Central to Northwich and Chester Northgate.The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation on 1 January 1948.When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was managed by Regional Railways under arrangement with the Greater Manchester PTE until the privatisation of British Rail.The station has a ticket office on platform 1, which is open on weekday mornings.[citation needed] There is generally an hourly service in each direction on the Mid-Cheshire line on Mondays to Saturdays, with two peak extras to/from Stockport.