Woodsmoor railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Woodsmoor


code = WSR
manager = Northern Rail
locale = Woodsmoor
borough = Stockport
lowusage0405 = 84,061
lowusage0506 = 98,185
lowusage0607 = 105,182
platforms = 2
pte = Greater Manchester
zone =
start = October 1990

Woodsmoor railway station is on the Buxton Line, serving the Woodsmoor suburb of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England.

The station

It has two platforms and a ticket office with limited opening times.

The platform for trains to Manchester Piccadilly can be accessed via steep steps from the humpback bridge going over the line (on Moorland Road), through the kissing gate at the end of Ferndale Avenue, or via the passage which is accessed from Crossfield Grove.

The platform for trains to Buxton can be accessed via steps on the other side of the bridge.

The station is 800 metres (½ mile) away from the Stepping Hill Hospital, the main hospital in the town of Stockport.

Despite being a very popular station during rush hour, saving many car journeys to Manchester, there are plans to close the station and move it further up the line so that it can better serve Stepping Hill hospital, though no final decision has yet been publicly made.

Stockport Grammar School, an academically renowned public school in the Manchester area, is situated 200 m from the station.

ervice

Trains run at a minimum of half hourly towards Manchester Piccadilly northbound and Buxton southbound. (hourly on Sundays).

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