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Levenshulme railway station

Coordinates: 53°26′40″N 2°11′34″W / 53.44444°N 2.19278°W / 53.44444; -2.19278
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Levenshulme
General information
LocationManchester
Managed byNorthern Trains
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeLVM

Levenshulme railway station is in Levenshulme, Manchester, England. The station is 3.1 miles (5 km) south east of Manchester Piccadilly towards Stockport.

Four tracks go through the station, with the centre tracks used by fast trains and the outer by stopping trains.

Services

A Northern Rail Class 150 stops at the station.

As of December 2018, there are four trains per hour from Levenshulme in each direction during off-peak weekday hours and all day Saturdays.[1] The calling pattern is not, however, regular in either direction.

All northbound trains run to Manchester Piccadilly. Southbound trains run to Alderley Edge and Hazel Grove (2tph to each), with one of the former extending through to Crewe and one of the latter to Buxton.

On Sundays, there are two trains per hour to Hazel Grove, with hourly extensions to Buxton southbound and two per hour to Piccadilly. There are a few stops by local trains running between Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester.

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
Northern Trains
Crewe-Manchester Line
Northern Trains
Stafford-Manchester Line
Northern Trains
Northern Trains
Mid-Cheshire Line

Signage

As well as English, the platform signs give the station name in Irish and Urdu, reflecting the immigrant communities from Ireland and Pakistan which live in the area.[2]

References

  1. ^ Table 84 & 86 National Rail timetable, December 2018
  2. ^ Railway Codes, 18 June 2019

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 100-102. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.

External links

53°26′40″N 2°11′34″W / 53.44444°N 2.19278°W / 53.44444; -2.19278