Styal railway station

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General information
Location	Cheshire East
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	SYA
Key dates
1909	Opened

Styal railway station is near Manchester Airport in Cheshire, England.

History

The station was opened in 1909 with the construction of the line from Wilmslow to Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly).

It won numerous best-kept station garden awards in the 1940s and 1950s under stationmasters Mott, Hilton and Jackson. The garden is long abandoned but there were plans to uncover and restore some of it in spring 2011.

A petition was created to seek a resumption of a morning commuter service to Manchester and daytime services to serve HMP Styal and National Trust Styal and local residents.

The station is on Station Road 110 m from the edge of the National Trust Quarry Bank Mill/Styal Estate and 600 m from Styal Women's Prison and Young Offenders Institute.

Services

Styal enjoyed a half-hourly service in each direction until the mid-1990s. The construction of the airport rail link in 1993 saw services reduced with only 8 trains per day in each direction on Monday to Saturday. On Sundays there was a two hourly service in each direction. This was gradually reduced down to a skeletal Monday - Saturday service and no Sunday service. Improvements started to reappear from December 2008 following the West Coast upgrade programme.

Since May 2018, a major timetable revamp has seen the station gain an hourly service 7 days a week in both directions. Northbound trains run to Piccadilly and then via Manchester Oxford Road and Earlestown to Liverpool Lime Street, whilst southbound they either terminate at Wilmslow (evenings and Sundays) or continue to Crewe.

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 43-44. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.

External links

• Train times and station information for Styal railway station from National Rail
• Friends of Styal Station website Giving news and history : access to petition
• Crewe-Manchester Community Rail Partnership

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Wilmslow		Northern Trains Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street via Chat Moss (Styal Line local stopping service)		Manchester Airport
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