Styal
National Rail
Styal railway station in 2011
General information
LocationStyal, Cheshire,
England
Grid referenceSJ840835
Managed byNorthern Trains
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeSYA
ClassificationDfT category F1
Key dates
1909Opened
Passengers
2018/19Increase 13,980
2019/20Increase 21,670
2020/21Decrease 1,922
2021/22Increase 11,498
2022/23Increase 21,454
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 Manchester Piccadilly, whilst southbound they either terminate at Wilmslow (evenings and Sundays) or continue to Crewe. Services through to Liverpool Lime Street only run now in the late evenings and on Sundays.

Services were temporarily suspended in summer 2020 and again in early 2021 due to amended timetables as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Monday - Sunday services have been reinstated.

Further reading

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

References

  1. ↑ Table 93 National Rail timetable, May 2023
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Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Wilmslow   Northern Trains
Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street via Chat Moss
(Styal line local stopping service)		   Manchester Airport
    Heald Green

53°20′53″N 2°14′24″W / 53.348°N 2.240°W / 53.348; -2.240

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