Place Manchester city centre Station code DGT DfT category D Opened 1849 | Grid reference SJ834975 Managed by Northern 2011/12 0.347 million Number of platforms 2 | |
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Address Manchester M3 4LG, United Kingdom Original company Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway Pte Transport for Greater Manchester Similar Ardwick railway station, Salford Central railway st, Salford Crescent railway st, Manchester Victoria station, Anchorage tram stop | ||
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Deansgate is a railway station in Manchester city centre, England, approximately 1,100 yards (1 km) west of Manchester Piccadilly in the Castlefield area, at the junction of Deansgate and Whitworth Street West. It is part of the Manchester station group.
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- Trains at deansgate railway station wcml diverts 28 5 16
- Deansgate railway station manchester featuring lms 5mt 45305
- History
- Services
- References
It is linked to Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop and the Manchester Central Complex by a footbridge built in 1985; Deansgate Locks, The Great Northern Warehouse and the Museum of Science and Industry are also nearby.
The platforms are elevated, reached by lift or stairs, or by the walkway from the Manchester Central Complex. The ticket office, staffed full-time, is between street and platform levels. There are no ticket barriers, although manual ticket checks take place on a daily basis.
It is on the Manchester to Preston and the Liverpool to Manchester lines, both heavily used by commuters. Most tickets purchased by passengers to Deansgate are issued to Manchester Stations or Manchester Central Zone, therefore actual usage is not reflected in these statistics, due to the difficulty in splitting the ticket sales correctly between the four grouped stations (Piccadilly, Victoria, Oxford Road and Deansgate).
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History
The station was opened as Knot Mill and Deansgate on 20 July 1849 by the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR) with wooden buildings near the site of the annual Knott Mill Fair, a decades-old event, which hosted acts such as Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal and George Wombwell's Menagerie. In 1884, Manchester Corporation approached the MSJAR about the station as it was an "eyesore and nuisance". Improvement plans were drawn up but it was not until 1891 that an Act was obtained to reconstruct the station and acquire the necessary land. The rebuilding was completed in 1896 and this date appears on a shield motif over the entrance. The station became Knott Mill and Deansgate around 1900 and Deansgate on 3 May 1971. Today it is sometimes known as Manchester Deansgate, and on many station information boards it is Deansgate G-Mex.
Services
There are regular trains eastbound to Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport. A number of through trains continue to/from Buxton and a number of trains which start or end here operate through to/from Stoke-on-Trent or Macclesfield.
First TransPennine Express used to run the service from Manchester Airport to Blackpool North but this was passed on to the new Northern franchise on the 1st April 2016.
Westbound there are regular trains to Liverpool Lime Street, Southport and Blackpool North.