- Stockport railway station
Infobox UK station
name = Stockport
code = SPT
manager =Virgin Trains
locale =Stockport
borough = Stockport
start =15 February 1843
platforms = 6
usage0405 = 1.608
usage0506 = 2.011
usage0607 = 2.237Stockport railway station (also known as Stockport Edgeley and Edgeleycite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor=Andrew Macfarlane |others=Railway Development Society |title=Peaks and Plains by Rail |origdate= |origyear=1989 |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year= |month= |publisher=Jarrold Colour Publications |location=Norwich |language= |isbn=0-7117-0429-5 |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=19 |chapter=Manchester–Buxton |chapterurl= |quote= ] ) is in
Greater Manchester ,England , 8 miles south-east ofManchester Piccadilly station on theWest Coast Main Line from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston. It was opened on 15 February 1843 by theManchester and Birmingham Railway , following completion of the large railway viaduct just to its north. After operation by theLondon & North Western Railway , it became part of theLondon Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, who renamed it StockportEdgeley , to differentiate it fromStockport Tiviot Dale , which closed in 1967. It is high above the valley of the river Mersey in which Stockport lies, and is linked to both central Stockport and Edgeley by a pedestrian underpass.Current passenger routes
Trains running north-west all serve Manchester Piccadilly, with some continuing to Manchester Oxford Road and beyond to
Liverpool orBlackpool .South-east from Stockport, express services run to
Sheffield and onwards toCleethorpes or toNottingham ,Peterborough ,Ely andNorwich with local services running toHazel Grove andBuxton .The two southern (West Coast Main Line) routes are via Cheadle Hulme. The first continues via
Macclesfield andStoke-on-Trent toLondon andBirmingham and the second viaWilmslow andCrewe also with through services to London and Birmingham as well as viaShrewsbury and theWelsh Marches Line toCardiff andMilford Haven . Many trains to Birmingham continue to destinations in the south of England.The
Mid-Cheshire Line runs westerly toAltrincham ,Knutsford ,Northwich andChester .The line running north-east from Stockport via
Guide Bridge railway station toStalybridge no longer has a regular passenger service, being reduced in the early 1990s from an hourly shuttle service to a once a week, one direction only skeleton service. (SeeStockport to Stalybridge Line ).The main concourse is a modern building, opened in 2004, as part of a development including a new platform (platform 0). This platform had been dubbed by many as "The white elephant" because it was hardly ever used and the new track which was installed was rusting, However At the beginning of March 2008 platform 0 rather strangely came into operation mid-timetable. A pedestrian subway leads to the two older
island platform s, which include a buffet and newsagent.Platform use
Platform 0 - Hazel Grove, Buxton, Sheffield, Norwich, Nottingham and Cleethorpes.
Platform 1 - Southbound services to Macclesfield, Crewe, Stoke-on-Trent, Alderley Edge and Reading.
Platform 2 - Southbound platform for services to Chester, Crewe, services to South Wales, services to London and Bristol.
Platform 3 - Predominantly used by fast service which next call at Manchester Piccadilly.
Platform 3a - North facing bay which is used by a small number of services in the northbound Manchester direction and the weekly service to Stalybridge.
Platform 4 - Mainly used by stopping services to Manchester Piccadilly and Deansgate which call at Heaton Chapel and Levenshulme. Also used by trains from Chester which do not call at Heaton Chapel and Levenshulme.
A Parliamentary Act of 1840 stated that as part of the conditions in building Stockport’s railway viaduct any passenger train using the structure is bound by law to stop at Stockport station.cite web|title=Concern over proposed train cuts|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7129447.stm|accessdate=2008-03-09|publisher=BBC|year=2007-12-05|work=BBC News Website] cite web|title=Register your viaduct vote online for trains to stop|url=http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/s/1041477_register_your_viaduct_vote_online_for_trains_to_stop|accessdate=2008-03-26|publisher=MEN|year=2008-03-26|work=Stockport Express News Website]
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