Place Baguley Grid reference SJ796891 Platforms in use 3 | Area Manchester 1 February 1866 Station opens | |
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Pre-grouping Cheshire Lines Committee Post-grouping Cheshire Lines Committee Original company Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway Similar Northenden railway station, Darcy Lever railway st, Staley and Millbrook railway st, Irlams o' th' Height railway st, Shawclough and Healey railway st | ||
Baguley railway station was a station in the South of Manchester, England, at the extreme western edge of Baguley near the southern end of Brooklands Road where Shady Lane crossed the railway line.
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History
Served by the Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway (ST&AJ), Baguley station was opened on 1 February 1866. From 15 August 1867 the ST&AJ became part of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) and from the Grouping of 1923, the CLC was jointly owned by the London and North Eastern Railway and London, Midland and Scottish Railway companies. The station then passed under the control of the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
Train services
Baguley station was served by local passenger trains from Stockport Tiviot Dale to Warrington Central and continuing on to Liverpool Central station. A separate service operated from Stockport via Baguley to Altrincham.
For most of the station's existence, the passenger trains were hauled by steam locomotives, but for a period up to the beginning of the Second World War, the services from Stockport and Baguley to Altrincham were performed by the CLC's Sentinel steam railcars. The station closed on 30 November 1964 when passenger trains were withdrawn by British Railways.
The site today
Passenger trains still pass through the site, but these are now from Manchester Piccadilly via Stockport and Altrincham, thence via Northwich to Chester. Freight trains also operate through Baguley, including heavy block trains carrying limestone from quarries at Tunstead (near Buxton) to alkali works at Northwich.
The future
Proposals have been made to reopen a station in the Baguley area when the extension of the Metrolink out to Wythenshawe and Manchester Airport is actioned. The station would be on Southmoor Road and would be a tram/train interchange with Baguley Metrolink station.
In May 2011 re-opening of the station on the Stockport-Altrincham line was included in Transport for Greater Manchester's Passenger Plan.