Gatley railway station

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

Gatley 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.

When the Styal line was electrified in 1960, there was a half-hourly electric service (Monday - Saturday) between Manchester Oxford Road and Alderley Edge operated by Class 304 electric multiple units. Services were extended to Altrincham, when the electrification was upgraded to 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 station opened in 1993, the Monday to Saturday service pattern was two trains per hour to Manchester Piccadilly, with two trains per hour in the opposite direction: one to Manchester Airport and the other continued onto Crewe. Sunday services consisted of obe train per hour to Manchester Airport, with one service every two hours continuing to Alderley Edge and one to Manchester Piccadilly.

Gatley station reopened on 28 January 2007, after reconstruction of the platforms and work to replace the ramp access to them. Electronic train service information screens were introduced in 2010 on each platform. In 2018, Arriva Rail North 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 was completed in March 2023.^[2]

The station lies 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.^[3]

Gatley station is served by two train operating companies, which provide the following general off-peak service in trains per hour/day (tph/tpd):

Northern Trains:^[4]

• 2 tph to Manchester Airport
• 1 tph to Manchester Piccadilly
• 1 tph to Crewe
• 1 tph to Liverpool Lime Street
• 1 tph to Lancaster, via Preston; of which:
  • most continue to Barrow-in-Furness
  • others continue to Windermere.

On Sundays, there is 1 tp2h in each direction between Manchester Airport and Liverpool Lime Street.

TransPennine Express:^[5]

• 1 tpd to Manchester Airport.

On Sundays, there is 1 tph in each direction between Manchester Airport and Redcar Central, with occasional extensions to Saltburn.

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

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

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