Alsager railway station

Alsager railway station serves the town of Alsager in Cheshire, England. It stands next to a level crossing and is approximately 600 yards from the town centre. The station is 6 1⁄2 miles (10.5 km) east of Crewe on the Crewe to Derby Line which is also a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway.

Alsager
LocationAlsager, Cheshire East
England
Coordinates53.0928°N 2.2981°W / 53.0928; -2.2981
Grid referenceSJ800551
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeASG
ClassificationDfT category F1
Key dates
9 October 1848Opened[1]
April 1889Renamed Alsager Rode Heath[1]
2 April 1923Renamed Alsager[1]
Passengers
2015/16 101,794
2016/17 111,016
2017/18 112,588
2018/19 116,446
2019/20 128,254
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is unstaffed. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost.

History

It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway company on 9 October 1848; later becoming 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 in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Rail.

The line through Alsager was electrified in 2003, so that it could be used as a diversionary route between Kidsgrove and Crewe during West Coast Main Line improvement work.

Services

As of October 2020, Alsager is served by one train per hour in each direction, operated by London Northwestern Railway, between Crewe and London Euston via Birmingham New Street.[2]

The hourly East Midlands Railway service from Crewe to Derby calls were removed in September 2020 and now only the first and last services of the day call at Alsager.[3]

On Sundays, there is at least an hourly Crewe - London Euston service for most of the day serving the station and, after 14:00, there is an hourly service between Crewe and Derby.

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
East Midlands Railway
Limited Service
London Northwestern Railway

References
Notes
  1. Quick 2009, p. 58.
  2. Table 67 National Rail timetable, May 2018
  3. Ault, Richard (6 September 2020). "Train firm slashes services at this station because of level crossing delays". StokeonTrentLive. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
Sources
  • Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • 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.
  • Station on navigable O.S. map
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