Alderley Edge railway station

Alderley Edge in 1951, with an LMS Hughes Crab passing through

Alderley Edge station, October 1962, with two AM4 EMUs

Opened by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, then absorbed by the London and North Western Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the grouping of 1923. The line 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 Railways.

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.

During off-peak periods on weekdays (and Saturday) before 7pm, there are:[1]

• Two trains per hour to Crewe
• One to Manchester Piccadilly via Stockport
• One to Wigan North Western via Manchester Piccadilly and Bolton
• One to Liverpool Lime Street
• One to Southport via Manchester Piccadilly and Wigan Wallgate

One of the via Stockport trains (which starts here) now runs through to Bolton and Wigan North Western via Manchester Oxford Road, whilst the Airport service continues to Liverpool Lime Street via Newton-le-Willows. The new through services are introduced as part of a major timetable revamp in May 2018.

After 19:00, the service drops to half-hourly to Manchester and hourly to Crewe and Wigan.

On Sundays there is an hourly service each way to Crewe and Manchester via Stockport. Connections for the Airport can be made at Wilmslow.

Transport for Wales also operate on Sundays:

• Two services to Manchester Piccadilly, one of which using the little-used Manchester Airport bypass line (express from Wilmslow) and one calling at Wilmslow and Stockport.
• One service to Cardiff Central in the morning.

The majority of Northern Trains services are worked by Class 319 or Class 323 trains, though the through Wigan trains are diesel operated.

• Butt, R. V. J. (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.
• 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

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 32-37. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alderley Edge railway station.

• 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
Stockport		Transport for Wales Manchester to South Wales