Cheadle Hulme railway station

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Cheadle Hulme
Location
Place Cheadle Hulme
Local authority Stockport
Operations
Station code CHU
Managed by Northern Rail
Platforms in use 4
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2005/06 * 0.357 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Greater Manchester
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cheadle Hulme from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Cheadle Hulme railway station is on the West Coast Main Line and is included in Network Rail Route 20 (North West Urban). The station is 13 km (8¼ miles) south east of the Manchester Piccadilly.

The station was opened by the London and North Western Railway c1848 and serves the town of Cheadle Hulme in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is a junction with two platforms serving the Crewe to Manchester Line and two platforms serving the Stafford to Manchester Line.

The original Cheadle Hulme railway station was located approximately one mile further south on the Crewe line but was relocated to its present location when the Stafford line was constructed.

A train crash occurred at Cheadle Hulme station in 1964 when a train travelling on the Stafford line towards Manchester took the curve at a speed in excess of a temporary restriction and several coaches were derailed. Three people, including two children were killed in the crash.

Passenger services are provided by Northern Rail and operate in the down direction to Stockport and stations to Manchester. In the up direction the trains serve stations on the line to Prestbury, Macclesfield and Stoke-on-Trent or stations on the line to Wilmslow, Alderley Edge and Crewe.

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[edit] Closed stations

At one time there were two other stations in the area. One was in Cheadle itself, on the Cheshire Lines Committee line to West Timperley. The third station was to the north at Cheadle Heath on the Midland Railway's line from New Mills South Junction to Manchester Central, which opened in 1902 and Cheadle Heath was served by express trains from London St.Pancras. Local stopping services operated to Sheffield, to Derby and to Manchester Central. Two of the platforms served a junction with the CLC's line to Liverpool. Cheadle Heath station closed for passengers in 1967 and little of it survives.

[edit] References

  • Radford, B., (1988) Midland Though The Peak Unicorn Books
  Preceding station     National Rail     Following station  
Handforth   Northern Rail
Crewe to Manchester Line
  Stockport
Bramhall   Northern Rail
Stafford to Manchester Line
  Stockport

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Coordinates: 53°22′35″N 2°11′16″W / 53.3763, -2.18778

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