Alderley Edge railway station

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Alderley Edge railway station" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Alderley Edge
Southward view from the Crewe-bound platform in 2007
General information
Location	Alderley Edge, Cheshire East England
Grid reference	SJ843785
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ALD
Classification	DfT category E
Key dates
10 May 1842	Opened as Alderley[1]
April 1853	Renamed to Alderley & Chorley[1]
January 1876	Renamed to Alderley Edge[1]
26 June 1959	Signal box closed[2]
Passengers
2018/19	0.297 million
2019/20	0.288 million
2020/21	72,348
2021/22	0.197 million
2022/23	0.227 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Alderley Edge railway station serves the large village of

History

Opened by the

When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways on behalf of the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive until the privatisation of British Rail.

The line was electrified in 1960, as the first stage of the West Coast Main Line electrification project; since then, the station has acted as a terminus for some local services from the Manchester direction. Both platforms are bi-directionally signalled to facilitate this and there are turnback sidings provided close to the station to allow empty stock to be stabled clear of the main line.

Station layout

Alderley Edge station has two platforms, both of which have a small station building. The building on platform 1 has a wooden canopy and houses a waiting area and ticket office; the building on platform 2 is not open to the public. The two platforms are connected by a

Northern

The basic weekday service pattern is:^[4]

• Three trains per hour to
  Manchester Piccadilly
  :
  • Two trains per hour run via the Stockport route, calling at Wilmslow, Handforth, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Heaton Chapel and Levenshulme;
  • One train per hour runs via the
    Styal Line, calling at Wilmslow, Styal, Manchester Airport, Heald Green, Gatley, East Didsbury, Burnage and Mauldeth Road
    .

• Two trains per hour to Crewe, calling at Chelford, Goostrey, Holmes Chapel and Sandbach.

On Sundays, there is a two-hourly stopping service in each direction between Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly, via Stockport.

Transport for Wales

TfW operate a few services that stop here on Sundays only:^[5]

• Two services to Manchester Piccadilly: one via the little-used Manchester Airport bypass line (express from Wilmslow) and one calling at Wilmslow and Stockport;
• One express service to Crewe.

References

Sources

• OL 11956311M
  .
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.
  OCLC 22311137
  .
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.
  OCLC 228266687
  .
• Station on navigable O.S. map

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 32-37.
  OCLC 892047119
  .

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alderley Edge railway station.

• Train times and station information for Alderley Edge railway station from National Rail
• Crewe-Manchester Community Rail Partnership

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Crewe to Manchester line		Wilmslow
Holmes Chapel			Northern Trains Crewe to Liverpool via Manchester
Terminus			Northern Trains Alderley Edge to Wigan
Crewe			Transport for Wales Manchester to South Wales

53°18′14″N 2°14′13″W / 53.304°N 2.237°W / 53.304; -2.237