Hazel Grove railway station
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Hazel Grove railway Station
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Place | Hazel Grove |
Local authority | Stockport |
Grid reference | SJ919867 |
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Station code | HAZ |
Managed by | Northern Rail |
Number of platforms | 2 |
DfT category | D |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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2004/05 | 0.276 million |
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PTE | Greater Manchester |
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hazel Grove from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
UK Railways portal |
Hazel Grove railway station is on the Stockport to Buxton / Sheffield line, serving the village of Hazel Grove, Greater Manchester, England. It was built for the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway by the London and North Western Railway and opened on 9 June 1857. From 1923 until 1948 it was owned by the London Midland and Scottish Railway and following nationalisation it was operated by the London Midland Region of British Railways.
At one time there was another station in the village (Hazel Grove (Midland)), on the Midland Railway's line from New Mills South Junction to Manchester Central via Cheadle Heath, which opened in 1902, but it was less conveniently situated and closed in 1917.
The line was extremely expensive to build with extensive earthworks. The navvies were accommodated in specially-built houses near the Rising Sun pub, which still exist, and are known as the "Navvy Mansions". The line from Edgeley Junction (just south of Stockport) to Hazel Grove was electrified in 1981 on the 25 kV AC overhead system.
The station has two side platforms, linked by a footbridge and lifts and has a signal box on the Buxton-bound platform. This controls the junction between the Buxton line and the chord linking it to the route through Disley Tunnel towards Sheffield at the country end of the station and also a pair of carriage sidings at the Stockport end used for stabling trains that terminate here. Ticket barriers are in operation.
Services
Today Hazel Grove is served by two trains per hour to/from Manchester Piccadilly – the hourly Manchester Piccadilly to Buxton and the hourly Preston to Hazel Grove DMU services.[1] Only a few of the local DMU services between Manchester and Sheffield go via Hazel Grove – most travel via New Mills Central. Few services from Buxton now continue past Manchester Piccadilly and those that do (currently seven services in total) operate in the early morning and evening business peak periods – these start/terminate at Clitheroe, Preston, Wigan North Western, Blackpool North, Bolton, Wigan Wallgate and Barrow-in-Furness. On Sundays there are trains to/from Southport that start or terminate here. Whilst the line to Hazel Grove is electrified, Electric Multiple Units only now operate two services between Hazel Grove and Piccadilly in the evening. The units that used to run services on the route are now used to provide an extra hourly stopping service between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport. Since October 2015, the Preston service finishing/starting from here now runs through to Blackpool North[2] (to replace the weekday service from Liverpool Lime Street that is now operated by EMUs).
The single-track Hazel Grove Chord opened in 1986. This allowed trains to/from Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly to access the former Manchester Central – New Mills South Junction line just south of Hazel Grove station and thus provides a faster route between Manchester and Sheffield than the former route via Romiley and New Mills Central. The chord also enables Sheffield trains to serve Stockport and run to/from Liverpool Lime Street.
References
- ↑ Northern Rail Timetable 20: Buxton - Hazel Grove - ManchesterNorthern Rail; Retrieved 2014-09-25
- ↑ GB eNRT December 2015 Edition, Table 82
- Radford, B., (1988) Midland Though The Peak Unicorn Books
- Harrison, P., (2006) Striking A Chord With Electric
External links
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- Train times and station information for Hazel Grove railway station from National Rail
- Railscot – Hazel Grove
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