Alderley Edge railway station

Alderley Edge
Southward view from the Crewe-bound platform.
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
11 May 1842	Opened as Alderley
April 1853	Renamed to Alderley & Chorley
January 1876	Renamed to Alderley Edge
Passengers
2017/18	0.293 million
2018/19	0.297 million
2019/20	0.288 million
2020/21	72,348
2021/22	0.197 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Alderley Edge railway station serves the large village of Alderley Edge in Cheshire, England. The station is 13¾ miles (22 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly on the Crewe to Manchester Line.

History

Alderley Edge station, October 1962, with two AM4 EMUs

Opened by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, then absorbed by the London and North Western Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

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 Railways.

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 with a wooden canopy. The building on platform 1 houses a waiting area and ticket office, but on platform 2 the building is not open to the public. The two platforms are connected by a footbridge and an adjacent road bridge at the southern end of the station. There are two ticket machines on the western side of the station, accessible from platform 1.

Vehicle access is available to the western side of the station but only for drop-off purposes; for longer stays a car park is provided to the east.

Services

Northern

The basic weekday service pattern is:

• Three trains per hour towards Manchester Piccadilly
  • One train per hour runs via the Styal Line, calling at Wilmslow, Styal, Manchester Airport, Heald Green, Gatley, East Didsbury, Burnage and Mauldeth Road, then continues to Liverpool Lime Street via Chat Moss
  • One train per hour runs via the Stockport route, calling at Wilmslow, Handforth, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport and Heaton Chapel, and terminates at Piccadilly.
  • One train per hour runs via the same Stockport route, calling additionally at Levenshulme, then continues to Southport via Wigan Wallgate
• Two trains per hour to Crewe
  • One starting from Manchester Piccadilly
  • One starting from Liverpool Lime Street
• One train which terminates here, from Southport

Transport for Wales

Transport for Wales operate a few services, on Sundays only:

• Two services to Manchester Piccadilly, one of which using the little-used Manchester Airport bypass line (express from Wilmslow) and one calling at Wilmslow and Stockport.
• One service to Swansea in the morning
• One express service to Crewe

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. 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. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 32-37. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.

External links

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

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