Stockport railway station
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| Stockport | |||
| Location | |||
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| Place | Stockport | ||
| Local authority | Stockport | ||
| Operations | |||
| Station code | SPT | ||
| Managed by | Virgin Trains | ||
| Platforms in use | 6 | ||
| Live departures and station information from National Rail | |||
| Annual Passenger Usage | |||
| 2004/05 ** | 1.608 million | ||
| National Rail - UK railway stations | |||
| Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stockport (source) | |||
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Stockport railway station is 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, to differentiate it from Stockport Tiviot Dale, which closed in 1967. It is high above the valley of the river Mersey in which Stockport lies, and is linked to both central Stockport and Edgeley by a pedestrian underpass below the station. Many local residents refer to the station as "Edgeley Station".
[edit] Current Passenger Routes
Trains running north-west all serve Manchester Piccadilly, with some 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. Many trains to Birmingham 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 frequent passenger service, being reduced in the early 1990s from an hourly shuttle service 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 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) which is hardly ever used and the track is now rusting. A pedestrian subway leads to the two older island platforms, which include a buffet and newsagent.
[edit] Service Patterns
From 5 January 2007 there are 24 trains per hour stopping at Stockport in normal daytime service hours:
- 2 Arriva Trains Wales services:
- 1 to Carmarthen or Milford Haven, via Shrewsbury and the Welsh Marches Line.
- 1 to Manchester Piccadilly
- 2 TransPennine Express services:
- 1 to Cleethorpes via the South TransPennine route - the Hope Valley Line, Sheffield, Doncaster and Grimsby
- 1 to Manchester Airport via Manchester Piccadilly
- 2 Central Trains services:
- 1 to Liverpool Lime Street via Manchester, Warrington and Widnes
- 1 to Norwich via the Hope Valley Line, Sheffield, Nottingham and Peterborough
- 10 Northern Rail services:
- 1 to Buxton
- 3 to Manchester Piccadilly, terminating there
- 1 to Deansgate
- 1 to Macclesfield
- 1 to Hazel Grove
- 1 to Blackpool North
- 1 to Chester
- 1 to Crewe
- 8 Virgin Trains services:
- 2 to Birmingham New Street (including Virgin Cross-Country services, which continue to Reading, Bournemouth, and Brighton)
- 4 to Manchester Piccadilly
- 2 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
