Trains to Cheadle Hulme - Station Details and further Information on Cheadle Hulme Train Services
Cheadle Hulme train station is an open triangular train station serving Cheadle Hulme in Greater Manchester. It is located on the West Coast Main Line and is included in Network Rail Route 20 (North West Urban). The station is in Cheadle Hulme's District Centre and is operated by Northern Rail.
Cheadle Hulme's first train station opened in 1842, when the Manchester and Birmingham Railway to Crewe was completed. With the extension of the line to Macclesfield (and later Stoke-on-Trent), a new station opened in 1845 which has served the area since. The railway had a major impact on the area, transforming it from a collection of small hamlets into a suburb of over 29,000 people.
The station remains an important part of the community, and is regularly discussed in local community meetings (known as the Cheadle Hulme Partnership). It is staffed part-time; there are no facilities other than waiting rooms and the ticket office, and the closest station with more facilities is Stockport. According to an employee of Northern Rail, pedestrian access to the station will be improved in 2009 with new lifts, a footbridge, and new steps.
The station's four platforms are all accessed via stairs – access to platform 1 is next to Pimlott's butchers, access to platforms 2 and 3 is through the ticket office, and access to platform 4 is near the Cheadle Hulme public house. The station and the bridges are a regular item on the agenda for local partnership meetings; for example, there are plans for the appearance of the bridges to be improved.
Northern Rail provides passenger services. Three trains per hour run northeastwards to Stockport, Heaton Chapel, Levenshulme and Manchester Piccadilly. In the other direction, trains run hourly on the Stoke line and serve stations in Bramhall, Poynton, Adlington, Prestbury, Macclesfield, Congleton, Kidsgrove, and Stoke-on-Trent. On the Crewe line, one train per hour serves Handforth, Wilmslow and Alderley Edge stations, and one train per hour serves the same stations and continues to Chelford, Goostrey, Holmes Chapel, Sandbach and Crewe.
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