Alsager railway station serves the town of Alsager in Cheshire, England. It stands next to a level crossing and is approximately 600 yards from the town centre. The station is 6+1⁄2 miles (10.5 km) east of Crewe on the Crewe to Derby Line which is also a Community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway.

Alsager
General information
Location	Alsager, Cheshire East England
Coordinates	53.0928°N 2.2981°W / 53.0928; -2.2981
Grid reference	SJ800551
Managed by	East Midlands Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	ASG
Classification	DfT category F1
Key dates
9 October 1848	Opened[1]
April 1889	Renamed Alsager Rode Heath[1]
2 April 1923	Renamed Alsager[1]
Passengers
2016/17	111,016
2017/18	112,588
2018/19	116,446
2019/20	128,254
2020/21	27,572
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station is unstaffed. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost.

History

It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway company on 9 October 1848; later becoming part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Rail.

The line through Alsager was electrified in 2003, so that it could be used as a diversionary route between Kidsgrove and Crewe during West Coast Main Line improvement work.

Services

Services at Alsager are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 156, 158 and 170 DMUs and by London Northwestern Railway using Class 350 EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:[2][3]

• 1 tph to Birmingham New Street
• 1 tph to Newark Castle via Derby and Nottingham
• 2 tph to Crewe

On Sundays, there is an hourly service between Crewe and Birmingham throughout the day. Hourly Sunday services operate between Crewe and Derby after 14:00 only.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kidsgrove		East Midlands Railway Crewe to Derby Line		Crewe
		London Northwestern Railway Birmingham to Crewe

References

Notes

Sources

• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alsager railway station.

• Train times and station information for Alsager railway station from National Rail
• Pictures of the station during diversions