Cheadle Hulme railway station
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Cheadle Hulme railway station is on the West Coast Main Line and is included in Network Rail Route 20 (North West Urban). The station was opened by the London and North Western Railway c1848 and serves the town of Cheadle Hulme in the county of Cheshire in England. It is a junction with two platforms serving the Crewe to Manchester Line and two platforms serving the Stafford to Manchester Line.
Passenger services are provided by Northern Rail and operate in the down direction to Stockport and stations to Manchester. In the up direction the trains serve stations on the line to Prestbury, Macclesfield and Stoke-on-Trent or stations on the line to Wilmslow, Alderley Edge and Crewe.
Closed Stations
At one time there were two other stations in the area. One was in Cheadle itself, on the Cheshire Lines Committee line to West Timperley. The third station was to the north at Cheadle Heath on the Midland Railway's line from New Mills South Junction to Manchester Central, which opened in 1902 and Cheadle Heath was served by express trains from London St.Pancras. Local stopping services operated to Sheffield, to Derby and to Manchester Central. Two of the platforms served a junction with the CLC's line to Liverpool. Cheadle Heath station closed for passengers in 1967 and little of it survives.
References
- Radford, B., (1988) Midland Though The Peak Unicorn Books
External links
- [Train times] and [station information] for Cheadle Hulme railway station from National Rail
- [Street map] and [aerial photo] of Cheadle Hulme railway station from Multimap.com
- [Cheadle Heath]
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