Woodley railway station

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Woodley
National Rail
Woodley Station - geograph.org.uk - 1372431.jpg
Woodley railway station in 2009
LocationWoodley, Stockport
England
Grid referenceSJ939925
Managed byNorthern Trains
Transit authorityGreater Manchester
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeWLY
ClassificationDfT category F2
History
Opened1862
Passengers
2016/17Increase 60,882
2017/18Increase 63,554
2018/19Increase 78,852
2019/20Increase 87,502
2020/21Decrease 10,082
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Woodley railway station serves the suburb of Woodley in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. The station is 9+1⁄4 miles (14.9 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly on a branch of the Hope Valley Line to Rose Hill Marple. It is situated where the A560 road from Stockport to Gee Cross, near Hyde, crosses over the railway line.

History[]

It was opened on 5 August 1862 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and later became a junction when a line from Stockport Tiviot Dale (The Stockport and Woodley Junction Railway) reached the town in 1865. The station subsequently became jointly owned and operated by the MS&L, Great Northern Railway and Midland Railway as part of the Cheshire Lines Committee system.[1]

The Stockport route closed to passengers in January 1967,[2] although a short section at the eastern end remains in use for goods traffic (serving a Tarmac stone terminal and waste recycling plant at Bredbury). A second link from Apethorne Junction to the north gave an east-facing link to the Woodhead Line at Godley Junction from 1866, which was heavily used for many years by trans-Pennine freight traffic (mainly coal from the South Yorkshire coalfield to Fiddlers Ferry power station). This was closed soon after the Woodhead route, in 1982.

Services[]

Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service northbound to Manchester Piccadilly and southbound to Rose Hill Marple (limited service only after 19:20).[3]

There is no Sunday service. A normal service operates on bank holidays.

In July 2020, Northern informed local residents that services between Manchester and Rose Hill Marple will not operate between early September and mid December 2020.[4] This will leave Rose Hill, Hyde North and Hyde Central, as well as Woodley, without service for around four months.

Railway Clearing House map of the Woodley area[]

1909 map showing (right) the station and junction layout at Woodley

The railway line from Hyde through Woodley to Romiley and Marple is shown as being owned by the Great Central and Midland Railways joint committee. The line from Stockport (Tiviot Dale) through Woodley is shown to be owned by the Cheshire Lines Committee.

Notes[]

  1. ^ Marshall, p.20
  2. ^ Butt, p.220
  3. ^ Table 78 National Rail timetable, May 2018
  4. ^ "Save the Rose Hill Marple Service to Piccadilly". William Wragg MP. Retrieved 27 July 2020.

References[]

  • 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.
  • Marshall, J (1981) Forgotten Railways North-West England, David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd, Newton Abbott. ISBN 0-7153-8003-6

External links[]

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Romiley   Northern Trains
Hope Valley Line
Mondays-Saturdays only 		  Hyde Central

Coordinates: 53°25′46″N 2°5′34″W / 53.42944°N 2.09278°W / 53.42944; -2.09278


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