Styal railway station
Styal  | |
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| Location | Styal, Cheshire East England |
| Grid reference | SJ840835 |
| Managed by | Northern Trains |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | SYA |
| Classification | DfT category F1 |
| Key dates | |
| 1909 | Opened |
| Passengers | |
| 2016/17 |  4,772 |
| 2017/18 |  5,926 |
| 2018/19 | 13,980 |
| 2019/20 | 21,670 |
| 2020/21 | 1,922 |
| Notes | |
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | |
Styal railway station is near Manchester Airport in Cheshire, England.
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 metres from the edge of the National Trust Quarry Bank Mill/Styal Estate and 600 metres 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 Manchester Airport and then via Manchester Piccadilly and Earlestown to Liverpool Lime Street, whilst southbound they either terminate at Wilmslow (evenings and Sundays) or continue to Crewe.
Services were temporarily suspended in summer 2020 and again in early 2021 due to amended timetables as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Monday - Saturday services have been reinstated.
Sunday services have been suspended since April 2020 but are currently expected to return in the December 2021 timetable change
Further reading[]
- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 43-44. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.
References[]
- ^ Table 84 National Rail timetable, December 2020
External links[]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Styal railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Styal railway station from National Rail
- Friends of Styal Station website Giving news and history : access to petition
- Crewe-Manchester Community Rail Partnership
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Wilmslow | Northern Trains Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street via Chat Moss (Styal Line local stopping service) |
Manchester Airport | ||
| Heald Green | ||||
- Railway stations in Cheshire
- Former London and North Western Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1909
- Northern franchise railway stations
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