Macclesfield railway station

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Macclesfield

Location

Place

Macclesfield

Local authority

Macclesfield

Operations

Station code

MAC

Managed by

Virgin Trains

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Passenger Usage

2004/05 **

0.713 million

History

Key dates

Opened July 1st 1873

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Macclesfield railway station is a main line station serving the Cheshire town of Macclesfield. It lies on the Manchester to Stoke-on-Trent branch of the West Coast Main Line, in the United Kingdom.

The London and North Western Railway was successful in opening the line from Manchester as far as Macclesfield. This station became known as Macclesfield Hibel road station, opening June 19, 1849. On this date the North Staffordshire Railway completed the Congleton to Macclesfield section of their main Macclesfield - Stoke - Norton bridge line. The North Staffordshire Railway had running powers into the aforementioned LNWR station at Hibel road.

During the 1860s the North Staffordshire Railway collaborated with the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway on the issue of constructing a joint railway from Macclesfield to Marple near Manchester. For the North Stafford, this would provide a route to Manchester independent of the LNWR. For the MS&LR, a link would be provided into Stoke and to the south. This line was opened throughout to a second, temporary Macclesfield station for passengers on August 2, 1869 and to goods on March 1, 1870. Eventually, the joint railway (between the NSR and MS&LR) known as the Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple railway (MB&M) constructed a separate Macclesfield station just south of Macclesfield Hibel road and was known as Macclesfield central. The new station was connected to the rest of the joint line for goods on April 3, 1871 and opened for passengers July 1, 1873.

On November 7, 1960 British Rail closed Macclesfield Hibel road and Macclesfield was served by the vastly remodelled Central station now simply known as Macclesfield station.

Many of the Northern Rail services that run along this line terminate here, though a few continue through to Stoke.

Facilities at the station include ticket sales, a kiosk, waiting room and public toilets. Prior to the relocation and rebuilding of the bus station (which was completed to some local acclaim in 2004), the Macclesfield railway and bus stations were located unusually close to each other (each one having been visible from the frontispiece of the other).

It is one of the three stations that provide access to the Middlewood Way, which follows the route of the former Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple railway.