Gatley railway station

Gatley
Gatley station, 9 May 2019
General information
Location	Gatley, Stockport England
Grid reference	SJ847886
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	Greater Manchester
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	GTY
Classification	DfT category E
Key dates
1909	Opened
2023	Platforms extended
Passengers
2019/20	0.338 million
2020/21	66,656
2021/22	0.252 million
2022/23	0.287 million
2023/24	0.306 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Gatley railway station is on the Styal Line in Greater Manchester, England. It serves the village of Gatley in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport.

History

Gatley railway station, under construction in 1908

The station was opened by the London & North Western Railway in 1909; it was first known as Gatley for Cheadle, before being renamed Gatley on 6 May 1974.

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.

Gatley 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. In 2018, Northern by Arriva introduced ticket machines, which are on the northbound platform and at the bottom of the ramp for the southbound platform.

Work to extend the platforms at the station is expected to be completed by March 2023.

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

As of December 2022, the Monday to Saturday off-peak service is three trains per hour southbound to Manchester Airport with one southbound train per hour continuing to Crewe via Wilmslow, and three northbound services to Manchester Piccadilly (two stopping, one fast), with one continuing to Liverpool Lime Street via Newton-le-Willows and one continuing to Barrow-in-Furness or Windermere.

On Sundays, the northbound services to Barrow-in-Furness/Windermere and Manchester Piccadilly are replaced by TransPennine Express services between Manchester Airport and Saltburn, giving 2 trains per hour during the day. The southbound stopping service terminates at Wilmslow instead of Crewe on Sundays.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Heald Green		Northern Trains Styal Line local stopping service Monday to Saturday		East Didsbury
		Northern Trains Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Airport Line
Manchester Airport		Northern Trains Manchester Airport to Barrow-in-Furness/Windermere Line Monday to Saturday		Manchester Piccadilly
		TransPennine Express North Route Manchester Airport to Saltburn Sunday only

Further reading

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

External links

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