Alderley Edge railway station

Alderley Edge
Southward view from the Crewe-bound platform in 2007
General information
Location	Alderley Edge, Cheshire East England
Grid reference	SJ843785
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ALD
Classification	DfT category E
Key dates
10 May 1842	Opened as Alderley
April 1853	Renamed to Alderley & Chorley
January 1876	Renamed to Alderley Edge
26 June 1959	Signal box closed
Passengers
2019/20	0.288 million
2020/21	72,348
2021/22	0.197 million
2022/23	0.227 million
2023/24	0.239 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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

Two AM4 EMUs at Alderley Edge station in October 1962

Opened by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, then absorbed by the London and North Western Railway, the line became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the grouping of 1923. It then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Regional Railways on behalf of the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive until the privatisation of British Rail.

The line was electrified in 1960, as the first stage of the West Coast Main Line 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.

Station layout

Alderley Edge station has two platforms, both of which have a small station building. The building on platform 1 has a wooden canopy and houses a waiting area and ticket office; the building on platform 2 is not open to the public. The two platforms are connected by a footbridge and an adjacent road bridge at the southern end of the station. There are two ticket machines on the western side of the station, accessible from platform 1.

Vehicle access is available to the western side of the station but only for drop-off purposes; for longer stays, a car park is provided to the east.

Services

Northern

The basic weekday service pattern is:

• Three trains per hour to Manchester Piccadilly:
  • Two trains per hour run via the Stockport route, calling at Wilmslow, Handforth, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Heaton Chapel and Levenshulme;
  • One train per hour runs via the Styal Line, calling at Wilmslow, Styal, Manchester Airport, Heald Green, Gatley, East Didsbury, Burnage and Mauldeth Road.

• Two trains per hour to Crewe, calling at Chelford, Goostrey, Holmes Chapel and Sandbach.

On Sundays, there is a two-hourly stopping service in each direction between Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly, via Stockport.

Transport for Wales

TfW operate a few services that stop here on Sundays only:

• Two services to Manchester Piccadilly: one via the little-used Manchester Airport bypass line (express from Wilmslow) and one calling at Wilmslow and Stockport;
• One express service to Crewe.

Sources

• 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 Trains Crewe to Manchester line		Wilmslow
Holmes Chapel		Northern Trains Crewe to Liverpool via Manchester
Terminus		Northern Trains Alderley Edge to Wigan
Crewe		Transport for Wales Manchester to South Wales