Hazel Grove railway station
Hazel Grove  | |
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 Hazel Grove railway station | |
| General information | |
| Location | Hazel Grove, Stockport England |
| Grid reference | SJ919867 |
| Managed by | Northern Trains |
| Transit authority | Transport for Greater Manchester |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | HAZ |
| Classification | DfT category D |
| History | |
| Opened | 1857 |
| Passengers | |
| 2018/19 |  0.802 million |
| Interchange | 7,119 |
| 2019/20 |  0.730 million |
| Interchange | 4,465 |
| 2020/21 | 0.107 million |
| Interchange | 886 |
| 2021/22 | 0.360 million |
| Interchange | 2,468 |
| 2022/23 | 0.405 million |
| Interchange | 380 |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
Hazel Grove railway station is a junction on both the
.History
The station was built for the
There was once another station in the village,
The line was extremely expensive to build with extensive earthworks. The
The signal box on the Buxton-bound platform remains in use. This controls the junction between the Buxton line and the chord linking it to the route through Disley Tunnel towards Sheffield at the country end of the station; it also controls a pair of carriage sidings at the Stockport end used for stabling trains that terminate here.
The single-track Hazel Grove Chord opened in 1986.[1] This allowed trains to/from Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly to access the former Manchester Central – New Mills South Junction line, just south of Hazel Grove station; this provides a faster route between Manchester and Sheffield than the former route via Romiley and New Mills Central. The chord also enables Sheffield trains to serve Stockport and run to/from Liverpool Lime Street.
Facilities
The station is staffed all week, with its ticket office on platform 1 open 06:05-19:00 weekdays (until 20:00 on Fridays only), 07:00-20:00 Saturdays and 09:00-16:30 Sundays. There are waiting rooms on both platforms, toilets in the main building and a small coffee shop on platform 2. Train running details are provided via automated announcements, timetable posters and digital information screens. Step-free access is available to both platforms via the lifts built into the footbridge linking the platforms.[2]
Services
As of December 2022, the station is served on weekdays by two trains per hour northbound to
Many regular services operated by East Midlands Railway and TransPennine Express pass through the station but do not stop.
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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Hope Valley Line Limited service | ||||
| Northern Trains | ||||
| Terminus |
| Bolton | |
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| Bury |
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| Manchester (Manchester station group in italics) | |
| Oldham | |
| Rochdale | |
| Salford |
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| Stockport | |
| Tameside | |
| Trafford |
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| Wigan | |
† stations on the East Lancashire Railway (heritage) | |
53°22′40″N 2°07′21″W / 53.3777°N 2.1226°W
Recent history
Class 323 units operated the hourly Hazel Grove to Manchester Piccadilly service but, from October 2015 until May 2018, diesel multiple units ran the service as the route was extended to run to Preston and through to Blackpool North,[4] to replace the weekday service from Liverpool Lime Street that is now operated by EMUs.
Electric operation returned at the May 2018 timetable change, with one train per hour to/from Piccadilly worked by Class 319 EMUs. This was part of a major timetable revamp that saw 3 trains to Manchester each hour off-peak on weekdays and Saturdays and 2 each hour to Buxton. Regular running to destinations beyond Manchester ceased temporarily at the May 2018 timetable change.
References
- ^ Hazel Grove Chord (looking south) Whatley, Peter, Geograph.org.uk; Retrieved 17 May 2017
- ^ Hazel Grove station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 23 February 2017
- ^ Table 95 National Rail timetable, December 2022
- ^ GB eNRT December 2017 Edition, Table 82
- ^ "Rail North Committee Meeting – Item 5, Train Service Planning Update, p.2 Transport for the North Committee Meeting minutes, 9 October 2018; Retrieved 1 March 2019
- Radford, B., (1988) Midland Though The Peak Unicorn Books
- Harrison, P., (2006) Striking A Chord With Electric
External links
- Train times and station information for Hazel Grove railway station from National Rail
- Railscot – Hazel Grove