Heaton Chapel railway station
Heaton Chapel  | |||||
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.jpg) Heaton Chapel railway station in 2014 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Heaton Moor Road, Heaton Chapel England | ||||
| Grid reference | SJ881921 | ||||
| Owned by | Network Rail | ||||
| Operated by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Transit authority | Transport for Greater Manchester | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||
| Train operators | Northern Trains | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | HTC | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| Website | www.nationalrail.co.uk | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1852 | ||||
| Electrified | 1960 | ||||
| Previous names | Heaton Chapel & Heaton Moor | ||||
| Pre-grouping | LNWR | ||||
| Pre-nationalisation | LMS | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  0.849 million | ||||
| 2019/20 |  0.828 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.123 million | ||||
| 2021/22 | 0.413 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.480 million | ||||
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Heaton Chapel railway station serves the Heaton Chapel and Heaton Moor districts of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is 4+1⁄2 miles (7.2 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly towards Stockport. It opened as Heaton Chapel & Heaton Moor in 1852 by the London & North Western Railway. It was renamed Heaton Chapel by British Rail on 6 May 1974.[1]
Facilities
[edit]The station has a ticket office, which is closed at weekends; access to the Manchester-bound platform is only then possible via a ramp from Tatton Road South.[2]
In May 2016, the roof collapsed onto the stairs of the Manchester-bound platform.[3] This resulted in the stairs being closed on both platforms, leaving access only via long ramps to the platforms. The roof has now been repaired and reinstated.
Services
[edit]On Mondays to Saturdays, Heaton Chapel is typically served by the following Northern Trains services:[4]
- 1 train per hour (tph) each way between Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly, on the Crewe-Manchester line
- 1 tph each way between Alderley Edge and Piccadilly, on the Crewe-Manchester line
- 1 tph each way between Buxton and Piccadilly, on the Buxton line
- 1 tph each way between Hazel Grove and Piccadilly, on the Buxton line.
On Sundays, the service is reduced to one train per hour towards Buxton and an irregular service towards Manchester Piccadilly.
| Preceding station |  National Rail
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Following station | ||
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| Northern Trains Monday to Saturday | ||||
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References
[edit]- ^ Slater, J.N., ed. (July 1974). "Stations renamed by LMR". Notes and News. The Railway Magazine. Vol. 120, no. 879. London: IPC Transport Press Ltd. p. 363. ISSN 0033-8923.
- ^ "National Rail Enquiries - Station facilities for Heaton Chapel". Nationalrail.co.uk. 24 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ "In pictures: Rotten roof caves in at Heaton Chapel train station in Stockport". Manchester Evening News. 6 May 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
- ^ "Northern Trains – Timetables". Northern. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
Further reading
[edit]- Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 96-100. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.
External links
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Media related to Heaton Chapel railway station at Wikimedia Commons
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