Adlington railway station (Cheshire)
Adlington (Cheshire) railway station serves the village of Adlington in Cheshire, England.
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General information | |||||
Location | Adlington, Cheshire, Cheshire East England | ||||
Grid reference | SJ911803 | ||||
Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | ADC | ||||
Classification | DfT category E | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 24 November 1845 | ||||
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It was staffed for many years but is now unstaffed. The station building is privately owned. There is a ticket machine, which passengers must use to obtain a promise to pay or purchase their ticket before boarding the train.
History
editOpened by the London and North Western Railway, it became 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, the station was served by Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.
Passenger volume
edit2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | |
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Entries and exits | 27,278 | 5,114 | 17,284 | 18,782 |
Service
editFrom 14 December 2008 trains operate on an hourly pattern, terminating at Stoke-on-Trent (southbound) or Manchester Piccadilly (northbound). Some early morning/late night services originate/terminate at Macclesfield.[2]
There are six trains each way on Sundays.
Notes
edit- ^ "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Table 84 National Rail timetable, December 2018
References
edit- 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.
- 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
edit- Train times and station information for Adlington railway station (Cheshire) from National Rail
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