Woodley railway station

Woodley
265px Woodley railway station in 2009
Location
Place	Woodley
Local authority	Stockport
Grid reference	SJ939925
Operations
Station code	WLY
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	30,072
2005/06	32,109
2006/07	28,810
2007/08	32,827
2008/09	34,402
2009/10	35,744
2010/11	41,434
2011/12	44,792
2012/13	42,594
2013/14	48,692
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Greater Manchester
History
Key dates	Opened 1862 (1862)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Woodley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Woodley railway station serves the Woodley area of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England. The station is 9¼ miles (15 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly on the Hope Valley Line service 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. The Stockport route closed to passengers in January 1967, 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).

Services

Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly service northbound to Manchester Piccadilly and southbound to Rose Hill Marple (limited service after 19.00, some Saturday trains run to/from Marple rather than Rose Hill).

There is no Sunday service.

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.

References

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

External links

• Train times and station information for Woodley railway station from National Rail

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