Coast services to London Euston and Birmingham New Street & Northern Trains services to Manchester Airport and the express service to Liverpool Lime Street. Platform 5 is for northbound services to Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. It is also used for services to Blackpool North and Barrow-in-Furness. Platform 6 is used to terminate Merseyrail's City Line services arriving from the Liverpool-Wigan Line which is operated by Northern Trains and also rarely used for Avanti services if no other platforms are available. The platforms have heated waiting rooms. The British Transport Police have an office on platform 4 near the station's cafe. Services The station is served currently by Avanti West Coast. There is an hourly service on the West Coast Main Line from London Euston, which continues northwards to Glasgow Central, with additional peak services terminating at Preston, Lancaster and Carlisle. The journey time from London is less than two hours (1 hour and 55 minutes). There is also an hourly service in the opposite direction calling at Warrington Bank Quay and London Euston. It is also served by Avanti West Coast's services from London Euston via Birmingham New Street to Blackpool North and Edinburgh (alternate hours). The single London Midland service from Birmingham New Street to Preston that used to call in the evening was withdrawn at the end of the 2007-8 timetable. With completion of the first stage of the North West electrification programme, most TransPennine Express services between Manchester and Scotland were re-routed via Wigan instead of Bolton by connecting with the West Coast Main Line near Newton-le-Willows. TransPennine Express now operates services between Manchester Airport and Scotland. These services no longer call at Wigan North Western and have been re-routed via Bolton now that the line is electrified (work finally being completed in early 2019 ahead of the spring timetable update). Northern Trains operates a half-hourly local stopping service from Liverpool Lime Street, along the Liverpool-Wigan Line via St Helens Central with a handful of services running to Liverpool via the Lowton Chord and Newton-le-Willows. There is also an hourly service from Liverpool which continues north along the West Coast Main Line to . On Sundays, the Liverpool - Wigan services do not run with the hourly - services calling at the smaller intermediate stations on the route to Liverpool. Northern also operated one electric hourly service per hour each way between Blackpool North and Manchester