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Woodley railway station serves the suburb of Woodley in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. The station is 9+1⁄4 miles (14.9 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly on a branch of the Hope Valley Line to Rose Hill Marple. It is situated where the A560 road from Stockport to Gee Cross, near Hyde, crosses over the railway line.

Woodley
Woodley railway station in 2009
General information
Location	Woodley, Stockport England
Grid reference	SJ939925
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	Greater Manchester
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	WLY
Classification	DfT category F2
History
Opened	1862
Passengers
2016/17	60,882
2017/18	63,554
2018/19	78,852
2019/20	87,502
2020/21	10,082
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

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.[1]

The Stockport route closed to passengers in January 1967,[2] 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). A second link from Apethorne Junction to the north gave an east-facing link to the Woodhead Line at Godley Junction from 1866, which was heavily used for many years by trans-Pennine freight traffic (mainly coal from the South Yorkshire coalfield to Fiddlers Ferry power station). This was closed soon after the Woodhead route, in 1982.

Services

On Mondays to Saturdays, there is a half-hourly stopping service northbound to Manchester Piccadilly and southbound to Rose Hill Marple (limited service only after 19:20).[3]

There is no Sunday service. A normal service operates on bank holidays.

In July 2020, Northern informed local residents that services between Manchester and Rose Hill Marple would not operate between early September and mid December 2020;[4] this was due to the train operating company's staff shortages from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This left Rose Hill, Hyde North and Hyde Central, as well as Woodley, without a train service for around four months. Regular services have since been restored.

Railway Clearing House map of the Woodley area

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.

Notes

References

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• 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 Trains Hope Valley Line Mondays-Saturdays only		Hyde Central

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