Hazel Grove
Hazel Grove railway station
General information
Location	Hazel Grove,Stockport England
Grid reference	SJ919867
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	Transport for Greater Manchester
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	HAZ
Classification	DfT category D
History
Opened	1857
Passengers
2019/20	0.730 million
Interchange	4,465
2020/21	0.107 million
Interchange	886
2021/22	0.360 million
Interchange	2,468
2022/23	0.405 million
Interchange	380
2023/24	0.441 million
Interchange	527
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Hazel Grove railway station serves the village ofHazel Grove, inGreater Manchester, England. It is a junction on both theStockport toBuxton and Stockport toSheffield lines. The station is managed byNorthern Trains, which operates all trains that stop here.

The station was built for theStockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway, by theLondon and North Western Railway, and opened on 9 June 1857. From 1923 until 1948, it was owned by theLondon Midland and Scottish Railway and, following nationalisation, it was operated by theLondon Midland Region ofBritish Railways.

There was once another station in the village,Hazel Grove (Midland) on theMidland Railway's line from New Mills South Junction toManchester Central, viaCheadle Heath; this opened in 1902, but it was less conveniently situated and closed in 1917.

The line was extremely expensive to build with extensive earthworks. Thenavvies were accommodated in specially-built houses near the Rising Sun pub, which still exist and are known as theNavvy Mansions. The line from Edgeley Junction, just south of Stockport, to Hazel Grove was electrified in 1981 on the 25 kVAC overhead system. This allowed electric trains on the route fromAltrincham, viaSale, to serve the station until that line was closed for conversion toManchester Metrolink operation in late 1991; electric services to and from Piccadilly continued thereafter.

The signal box on the Buxton-bound platform remains in use. This controls the junction between the Buxton line and the chord linking it to the route throughDisley Tunnel towards Sheffield at the country end of the station; it also controls a pair of carriage sidings at the Stockport end used for stabling trains that terminate here.

The single-track Hazel Grove Chord opened in 1986.^[1] This allowed trains to/from Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly to access the former Manchester Central – New Mills South Junction line, just south of Hazel Grove station; this provides a faster route between Manchester and Sheffield than the former route viaRomiley andNew Mills Central. The chord also enables Sheffield trains to serve Stockport and run to/fromLiverpool Lime Street.

Class 323 units operated the hourly Hazel Grove to Manchester Piccadilly service but, from October 2015 until May 2018,diesel multiple units ran the service as the route was extended to run toPreston and through toBlackpool North,^[2] to replace the weekday service from Liverpool Lime Street that is now operated byelectric multiple units (EMUs).

Electric operation returned at the May 2018 timetable change, with one train per hour to/from Piccadilly worked byClass 319 EMUs. This was part of a major timetable revamp that saw 3 trains to Manchester each hour off-peak on weekdays and Saturdays and 2 each hour to Buxton. Regular running to destinations beyond Manchester ceased temporarily at the May 2018 timetable change.^[3] Through running resumed in May 2019, with an hourly Monday-Saturday service running to the now-electrified Blackpool North usingClass 331 EMUs. As of December 2022, this service has reverted to terminating at Manchester Piccadilly using Class 323s.

The station is staffed all week, with its ticket office on platform 1 open 06:05-19:00 weekdays (until 20:00 on Fridays only), 07:00-20:00 Saturdays and 09:00-16:30 Sundays. There are waiting rooms on both platforms, toilets in the main building and a small coffee shop on platform 2.

Train running details are provided via automated announcements, timetable posters and digital information screens. Step-free access is available to both platforms via the lifts built into the footbridge linking the platforms.^[4]

As of December 2022, the station is served on weekdays by two trains per hour northbound toManchester Piccadilly and one train per hour southbound toBuxton, with one southbound train terminating here. The service terminating here does not run on Sundays. The station is also served by one train per day on theHope Valley Line toSheffield.^[5]

Many regular services operated byEast Midlands Railway andTransPennine Express pass through the station but do not stop.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Chinley		Northern Trains Hope Valley Line Limited service		Stockport
Middlewood		Northern Trains Buxton line		Woodsmoor
Terminus

53°22′40″N2°07′21″W / 53.3777°N 2.1226°W /53.3777; -2.1226

• Radford, B., (1988)Midland Though The Peak Unicorn Books
• Harrison, P., (2006)Striking A Chord With Electric

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