Gatley railway station

Gatley railway station is on the Styal Line between Slade Lane Junction in Longsight, Manchester and Wilmslow, Cheshire. Opened by the London & North Western Railway in 1909, it was known as Gatley for Cheadle before being renamed Gatley on 6 May 1974.[1] It serves Gatley, a commuter suburb in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The station is operated by Northern Trains.

Gatley railway station, under construction in 1908

Gatley
Gatley Station, 9 May 2019
Location
PlaceGatley
Local authorityStockport
Grid referenceSJ847886
Operations
Station codeGTY
Managed byNorthern Trains
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryE
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 0.310 million
2015/16 0.320 million
2016/17 0.357 million
2017/18 0.346 million
2018/19 0.350 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTEGreater Manchester
History
1909Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Gatley from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station is on the A560 Gatley Road and has a car park. The ticket office and waiting room, on the Manchester-bound platform, are only open in the morning. In 2018, Northern introduced ticket machines which are on the northbound platform and at the bottom of the ramp for the southbound platform.

The station re-opened on 28 January 2007 after reconstruction of the platforms and work to replace the ramp access to them. 2010 saw the installation of electronic train service information screens on each platform.

Services

Historical

When the Styal line was electrified in 1960, there was half-hourly electric service (Monday - Saturday) between Manchester Oxford Road and Alderley Edge operated by AM4 (Class 304) EMUs. Services were extended to Altrincham, when the M&SJR was re-electrified at 25 kV AC in 1971, and operated in this way until the line between Altrincham and Cornbrook Junction was transferred to Manchester Metrolink in 1990.

When Manchester Airport railway station opened in 1993, the Monday to Saturday service pattern was 2 trains per hour to Manchester Piccadilly. 2 trains per hour operated in the opposite direction - one to Manchester Airport and the other continued onto Crewe until 17:00, then terminated at Wilmslow in the evening. Sunday services consisted of 1 train per hour to Manchester Airport, with one service every 2 hours continuing to Alderley Edge and 1 train an hour to Manchester Piccadilly.

Present

The current Monday to Saturday service is a two trains per hour service to Manchester Airport and Manchester Piccadilly with one southbound train per hour continuing to Crewe via Wilmslow. Northbound services continue to Liverpool Lime Street or Redcar Central via Manchester Victoria. Due to the "skip stopping" of services along the Styal Line, services are no longer exactly half-hourly.

Services between Crewe and Liverpool Lime Street are the local stopping services calling at all stations on the Styal line. The Redcar Central to Manchester Airport services only call at Gatley on the Styal Line.

At peak times and late evenings, some additional services between Liverpool Lime Street/Blackpool North and Manchester Airport call.[2]

On Sundays, Gatley is served by one train per hour in each direction to Wilmslow via Manchester Airport, and Liverpool Lime Street via Manchester Piccadilly. In addition to this, services between Redcar Central - Manchester Airport services operate from late morning.

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Manchester Airport
TransPennine Express
Redcar Central to Manchester Airport
Manchester Piccadilly
Northern Trains
Crewe to Liverpool Lime Street via Chat Moss
(Styal Line local stopping service)
Northern Trains
Manchester to Preston line
(Limited service)

References
  1. Slater, J.N., ed. (July 1974). "Notes and News: Stations renamed by LMR". Railway Magazine. London: IPC Transport Press Ltd. 120 (879): 363. ISSN 0033-8923.
  2. Table 85 National Rail timetable, Dec 2019

Further reading
  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 52-54. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.


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