Ashley railway station

Ashley
Location
Place	Ashley
Local authority	Cheshire East
Operations
Station code	ASY
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	3,378
2005/06 *	4,300
2006/07 *	3,898
2007/08 *	3,870
2008/09 *	4,742
2009/10 *	4,328
History
Opened 12 May 1862 (12 May 1862)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ashley from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Ashley also known in some timetables as Ashley for Rostherne is a railway station serving the village of Ashley in Cheshire, England, not far from the border with Greater Manchester. There is an hourly service (more at peak times) running to Manchester via Stockport, and in the opposite direction to Chester. The station is unstaffed and was, until 12 December 2010, a request stop only. The station retains many of its original features and buildings although these have been converted for residential use.

History

Opened by the Cheshire Lines Committee, the line through the station became a joint London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railway operation after the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways under arrangement with the Greater Manchester PTE until the Privatisation of British Railways.

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687. 
• Station on navigable 1946 O. S. map

External links

• Train times and station information for Ashley railway station from National Rail
• Mid-Cheshire Community Rail Partnership

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Mobberley		Northern Rail Mid-Cheshire Line		Hale