Styal railway station

Styal railway station is near Manchester Airport in Cheshire, England.

Styal
LocationStyal, Cheshire East
England
Grid referenceSJ840835
Managed byNorthern Trains
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeSYA
ClassificationDfT category F1
Key dates
1909Opened
Passengers
2015/16 4,856
2016/17 4,772
2017/18 5,926
2018/19 13,980
2019/20 21,670
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

The station was opened in 1909 with the construction of the line from Wilmslow to Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly).

It won numerous best-kept station garden awards in the 1940s and 1950s under stationmasters Mott, Hilton and Jackson. The garden is long abandoned, but there were plans to uncover and restore some of it in spring 2011.

A petition was created to seek a resumption of a morning commuter service to Manchester and daytime services to serve HMP Styal and National Trust Styal and local residents.

The station is on Station Road, 110 m from the edge of the National Trust Quarry Bank Mill/Styal Estate and 600 m from Styal Women's Prison and Young Offenders Institute.

Services

Styal enjoyed a half-hourly service in each direction until the mid-1990s. The construction of the airport rail link in 1993 saw services reduced with only 8 trains per day in each direction on Monday to Saturday. On Sundays there was a two hourly service in each direction. This was gradually reduced down to a skeletal Monday - Saturday service and no Sunday service. Improvements started to reappear from December 2008 following the West Coast upgrade programme.

Since May 2018, a major timetable revamp has seen the station gain an hourly service 7 days a week in both directions.[1] Northbound trains run to Piccadilly and then via Manchester Oxford Road and Earlestown to Liverpool Lime Street, whilst southbound they either terminate at Wilmslow (evenings and Sundays) or continue to Crewe.

Services were suspended in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. They were reinstated on 14 September 2020,[2] but are again currently suspended.

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 43-44. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.

References
  1. Table 84 National Rail timetable, May 2018
  2. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/SYA/2020-09-14/0200-0159?stp=WVS&show=all&order=wtt
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Wilmslow   Northern Trains
Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street via Chat Moss
(Styal Line local stopping service)		   Manchester Airport
    Heald Green

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