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| General information | |||||
| Location | Romiley,Stockport, England | ||||
| Grid reference | SJ941908 | ||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Transit authority | Transport for Greater Manchester | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | RML | ||||
| Classification | DfT category E | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1862 | ||||
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| 2022 | Platforms extended[1] | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 |  70,920 | ||||
| Interchange | 1,761 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.207 million | ||||
| Interchange | 5,878 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.245 million | ||||
| Interchange | 7,391 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.277 million | ||||
| Interchange | 9,363 | ||||
| 2024/25 | 0.287 million | ||||
| Interchange | 9,807 | ||||
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Romiley railway station servesRomiley, in theMetropolitan Borough of Stockport,Greater Manchester, England. It is sited at a junction of two parts of theHope Valley Line, providing services betweenManchester Piccadilly,New Mills Central andSheffield, and also between Piccadilly andRose Hill Marple.
The station was built by theManchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway on its extension toNew Mills, opening in 1862 fromManchester London Road.[2] A second route, theMacclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway toMacclesfield which joined the older line at Marple Wharf Junction, was opened in 1869; this provided an onward link toStoke-on-Trent.
From the south, trains would arrive both from Marple, on the Hope Valley Line from Sheffield, and Rose Hill Marple from Macclesfield. The MB&MR line was closed south of Rose Hill to Macclesfield in January 1970; this line had been recommended for closure in the 1963Beeching Report. The short branch to Rose Hill itself was reprieved by the then Minister of TransportRichard Marsh in 1969, when granting permission to close the rest of the route.[3]
To the north, the line split in three ways. Initially, it just ran through toWoodley to join the original MS&L line at Hyde Junction, leading on to Manchester London Road. In 1875, a more direct route to Manchester was opened throughReddish. A further branch, opened in 1869, led toStockport Tiviot Dale; at one time, this route carried through trains betweenDerby andManchester Central[4] but it was closed to passenger services in January 1967 and much of the line was lifted in 1983.
The station was built above street level; its platforms extend over the B6104 road. It has a spiral staircase, which once had a glass-roofed dome. The booking hall (staffed 06:20-20:45 weekdays and 07:10-21:35 Saturdays) and offices are on the first floor, with a subway and stairs to the platforms. Ramps are also available for wheelchair users. It has a long line public address system providing automated announcements and digital information displays to offer train running details.[5]
Northern Trains provides the following general off-peak service, in trains per hour (tph):[6]
On Sundays, there is 1 tph in each direction between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield; there is no service to and from Rose Hill.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Northern | ||||
| Northern | ||||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Stockport Tiviot Dale | Great Central and Midland Joint Railway | Marple | ||
As part of Manchester'sTransport Innovation Fund (TIF) bid, which would have seen aweekday peak time congestion charge introduced on roads into the city centre in order for a £3bn injection into the region's public transport, it had been announced that the route from Marple station would have seen an increase to four services per hour in both directions throughout the day to Manchester Piccadilly.
This would therefore have meant an increase to five services per hour at Romiley, with possibility for more, should services from Rose Hill Marple have been increased as discussed. The line would have effectively been run as a 'turn up and go' operation, offering users of stations along the route the ease of showing up without generally needing to know exact departure times.
Romiley railway station was also planned to become an officialTIF Park & Ride interchange under the proposals, which faced a public referendum in December 2008. These were rejected by a substantial margin[7] and the plans were eventually dropped in the spring of 2010.
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† stations on theEast Lancashire Railway (heritage) | |
