Stockport railway station
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| Stockport | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | Stockport |
| Local authority | Stockport |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SPT |
| Managed by | Virgin Trains |
| Platforms in use | 5 |
| Annual entry/exit 04/05 | 1.608 million ** |
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |
| ** based on sales of tickets in 2004/05 financial year which end or originate at Stockport. Disclaimer (PDF) | |
Stockport railway station serves the town of Stockport in Greater Manchester, 13km (8 miles) south-east of Manchester Piccadilly station on the West Coast Main Line from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston. Following Nationalisation in 1948, the station was known as Stockport Edgeley (after the nearby neighbourhood of Edgeley), to differentiate it from Stockport Tiviot Dale station, which was closed in 1967. The somewhat elevated station, high above the valley of the river Mersey in which Stockport lies, is linked to both central Stockport and Edgeley by a pedestrian underpass below the station. Many local residents therefore refer to the station as "Edgeley Station".
[edit] Current Passenger Routes
Trains running north-west from Stockport all serve Manchester Piccadilly with some trains continuing to Manchester Oxford Road and beyond to Liverpool or Blackpool.
South-east from Stockport, express services run to Sheffield and onwards to Cleethorpes or to Nottingham, Peterborough, Ely and Norwich with local services running to Hazel Grove and Buxton.
The southern (West Coast Main Line) routes are via Cheadle Hulme. The first is via Macclesfield and Stoke-on-Trent to London and Birmingham and the second via Wilmslow and Crewe also with through services to London and Birmingham as well as via Shrewsbury and the Welsh Marches Line to Cardiff and Milford Haven. Almost all trains to Birmingham by either route continue to destinations in the south of England.
The Mid-Cheshire Line runs westerly to Altrincham, Northwich and Chester.
The line running north-east from Stockport via Guide Bridge railway station to Stalybridge no longer has a regular passenger service, being reduced in the early '90s from a hourly shuttle service down to a once a week, one direction only skeleton service. (See Stockport to Stalybridge Line)
As part of the upgrading and re-signalling of the West Coast Main Line, Stockport station and also the routes via Macclesfield and Wilmslow were closed for lengthy periods at various times between 2002 and 2006, which resulted in a fall in station usage for 2004-5 compared with 2002-3.
The main concourse is a modern building, recently opened, as part of a development including a new platform (platform 0). A pedestrian subway leads to the two older island platforms, which include a buffet and newsagent.
[edit] Service Patterns
At May 29, 2006 there were 22 trains per hour (tph) stopping at Stockport station
These are broken down into:
- 2 First TransPennine Express services per hour:
- 1tph to Cleethorpes via the South TransPennine route (via Sheffield, Doncaster and Grimsby)
- 1tph to Manchester Airport (via Manchester Piccadilly)
- 2 Central Trains services per hour:
- 1tph to Liverpool Lime Street via Manchester, Warrington and Widnes
- 1tph to Norwich via the Hope Valley Line (via Sheffield, Nottingham, and Peterborough)
- 10 Northern Rail services per hour:
- 1tph to Buxton
- 2tph to Manchester Piccadilly (other trains do pass through Piccadilly, these are just the ones that terminate
- 1tph to Deansgate
- 1tph to Macclesfield
- 2tph to Hazel Grove
- 1tph to Blackpool
- 1tph to Chester
- Eight Virgin Trains services per hour:
- 2tph to Birmingham (including Virgin Cross-Country Services which continue to Reading, Bournemouth, and Brighton)
- 4tph to Manchester Piccadilly
- 2tph to London Euston
[edit] External links
- Train times and station information for Stockport railway station from National Rail
- Street map and aerial photo of Stockport railway station from Multimap.com
