Ardwick railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Ardwick
code = ADK


manager = Northern Rail
locale = Ardwick
borough = Manchester
start = November 1842
platforms = 2
lowusage0405 = 285
lowusage0506 = 358
lowusage0607 = 456

Ardwick railway station serves Ardwick in Manchester, England. It is about one mile (1.5 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly. It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1842

Ardwick is unstaffed and has a single island platform on the electrified Manchester to Glossop/Hadfield line. It is immediately adjacent to the main Manchester to London main line. It has a very limited, rush hour only service, consisting of 5 trains per day.

In 2004-2005 financial year, only 285 passengers used the station, or less than one per day. This number increased only slightly in 2005-2006, to 358. As a result it was proposed to close the station, but it was given a reprieve as a consequence of the increased commercial activity in the vicinity. The station is situated in the New East Manchester regeneration area.

History

Opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, it became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway during mergers in 1847. That line changed its name to the Great Central Railway in 1897. The station became a meeting point of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railwayduring the Grouping of 1923, and passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways under arrangement with the Greater Manchester PTE until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Non-closure

Network Rail, in their draft Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) for the North West, proposed the closure of Ardwick station. However, the closure proposals were dropped from the final report published on the 1st May 2007. Proposals to shut Ardwick and two other stations in Greater Manchester were shelved after residents and passenger groups persuaded Network Rail that long term development could improve the business case for keeping the stations open.

Gallery

ervices

As discussed above, there are only five services per day through Ardwick (with no services on Saturday or Sunday), these are:
*0737 to Manchester Piccadilly, calling Manchester Piccadilly only
*0820 to Manchester Piccadilly, calling Manchester Piccadilly only
*0844 to Manchester Piccadilly, calling Manchester Piccadilly only
*1706 to Marple, calling Ashburys, Belle Vue, Ryder Brow, Bredbury, Romiley and Marple
*1808 to Rose Hill Marple, calling Ashburys, Fairfield, Guide Bridge, Hyde North, Hyde Central, Woodley, Romiley and Rose Hill Marple

References

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External links

* [http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/001ewm/032_ardwick/index7.html Photos Of Ardwick Station]