Place Ardwick Station code ADK DfT category F2 Number of platforms 2 | Grid reference SJ858972 Managed by Northern 2011/12 584 | |
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Address Manchester M12 6LY, United Kingdom Original company Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway Pte Transport for Greater Manchester Similar Deansgate railway station, Salford Central railway st, Anchorage tram stop, Salford Crescent railway st, Manchester Victoria station | ||
Ardwick railway station a filming collection trains
Ardwick railway station in Manchester, England is about one mile (1.5 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly. Situated in an industrial area of east Manchester, it is the least-used railway station in Manchester. Plans to close the station permanently were quashed in 2006 due to increasing activity in the area. The station has just two trains in each direction calling on Monday to Friday only in the 2015-16 timetable.
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Welcome to ardwick railway station manchester
History
It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1842 and became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway during mergers in 1847. That company changed its name to the Great Central Railway in 1897. The station became a junction between the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway under the Grouping of 1923, and passed 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 Rail.
Ardwick rail depot, opened 2006 for the Class 185 DMU fleet is a short distance to the east.
From 1878 to 1902 there was also an Ardwick stop shown on Crewe–Manchester line timetables for collection of Manchester tickets on down trains.
Non-closure
In its draft Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) for the North West, Network Rail proposed the closure of Ardwick, but the closure proposals were dropped from the final report published on 1 May 2007. Proposals to close 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.
Ardwick is unstaffed and has a single island platform on the electrified line to Glossop and Hadfield. Access is from a footbridge, so wheelchair access is impossible. It is immediately adjacent to the main Manchester branch of the West Coast Main Line, and the two routes join just north of the station. It has a peak-hour-only service of two trains in each direction (Monday - Friday only). The lines passing through the station are all intensively used by non-stop trains and this, coupled with its location in a largely non-residential area, accounts for its infrequent service.
In 2004-2005 financial year only 285 passengers used the station, or fewer than one per day, increasing to 358 in 2005-2006. 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 new East Manchester regeneration area.
Services
The station is located on the Hope Valley Line with a very limited service to/from Rose Hill Marple and Glossop calling at Ardwick. All these services are operated by Northern.