Alderley Edge railway station

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General information
Location	Cheshire East
Managed by	Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ALD
Key dates
11 May 1842	Station Opens as Alderley
April 1853	Name changes to Alderley and Chorley
January 1876	Name changes to Alderley Edge

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 in 1951, with an LMS Hughes Crab passing through

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 Railwayson nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways on behalf of the GMPTE until the Privatisation of British Railways.

The line was electrified in 1960 (as the first stage of the WCML 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.

Services

During off-peak periods on weekdays (and Saturday) before 7pm, there are:

• Two trains per hour to Crewe
• Two to Manchester Piccadilly via Stockport
• One to Manchester Piccadilly via Manchester Airport

After 7pm, the service drops to hourly each way. A number of services are extended to/from Manchester Oxford Road or on home match days to/from Manchester United Football Ground.

On Sundays there is:

• A two hourly service to Crewe
• An hourly service to Manchester Piccadilly via Stockport
• A two hourly service to Manchester Piccadilly via Manchester Airport.

Arriva Trains Wales also operate on Sundays:

• 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 Cardiff Central in the morning.

The majority of Northern services are worked by class 323 trains.

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 Crewe–Manchester Line		Wilmslow
Holmes Chapel		Northern Crewe–Manchester Line		Wilmslow
Terminus		Northern Crewe–Manchester Line		Wilmslow