Gorton railway station

Infobox UK station
name = Gorton
code = GTO

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manager = Northern Rail
locale = Gorton
borough = Manchester
pte = Greater Manchester
start = 1842
platforms = 2
lowusage0506 = 72,062

Gorton railway station serves Gorton district of the city of Manchester, England. The station is on the Manchester-Glossop Line and the 4 km (2½ miles) east of Manchester Piccadilly.

The station was opened in 1842 by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, which later became part of the Great Central Railway. During the early part of the 20th century it was renamed Gorton and Openshaw, but it had reverted back to its original name by 1977.Jowett's Railway Centres Volume 1 (Alan Jowett, published PSL 1993)] It was referred to as Openshaw in the 1964 song Slow Train by Flanders and Swann.

ervices

Monday to Sunday daytimes there is, at minimum, a half-hourly service westbound to Manchester Piccadilly and eastbound to Glossop and Hadfield. Evening services generally run hourly.
Manchester-Rose Hill Marple Lines services pass Gorton by and stop instead at Fairfield.

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