Stockport
Stockport station in March 2025
General information
Location	Stockport,Metropolitan Borough of Stockport England
Grid reference	SJ892898
Managed by	Avanti West Coast
Platforms	6 (Numbered 0-3, 3a, 4)
Other information
Station code	SPT
Classification	DfT category B
History
Original company	Manchester and Birmingham Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
15 February 1843 (1843-02-15)	Opened asEdgeley
?	RenamedStockport Edgeley
6 May 1968	RenamedStockport
Passengers
2019/20	4.305 million
Interchange	0.774 million
2020/21	0.913 million
Interchange	0.128 million
2021/22	2.786 million
Interchange	0.456 million
2022/23	3.143 million
Interchange	0.364 million
2023/24	3.777 million
Interchange	0.438 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from theOffice of Rail and Road

Stockport railway station serves the large market and industrial town ofStockport inGreater Manchester, England. It is located 6 miles south-east ofManchester Piccadilly, on a spur of theWest Coast Main Line toLondon Euston.

TheManchester and Birmingham Railway opened in stages from Manchester and reached Stockport in 1840. The5+1⁄2-mile (9 km) line ran from a temporary station in Manchester to another in Stockport at the north end of the uncompletedStockport Viaduct. The temporary station, which was later renamedHeaton Norris, was Stockport's only station for more than two years.^[1] After the viaduct was completed, the M&BR built a station at its southern end as an experiment. The decision was prompted by complaints that the first station was a long way from the industrial parts of town and even farther from the residential districts on the south side. The second station opened on 15 February 1843 asEdgeley. By 1844, it was the town's principal station. Heaton Norris, at the north end of the viaduct, closed in 1959.^[1]

The station was operated by theLondon and North Western Railway and became part of theLondon Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923. In 1948,British Railways ran the system.

Most lines into the station were electrified at25 kV AC, using overhead wires, under theBritish Railways1955 Modernisation Plan; however, not all of the local lines were electrified.

As part of publicity for the newScott Mills Breakfast Show onBBC Radio 2, on 27 January 2025, all the station signs were changed from Stockport to "Scottport" for the day.^[2][3][4]

The station is positioned at high level above the valley of theRiver Mersey and with lifts that link a pedestrian underpass to central Stockport and Edgeley.

The station is staffed, has a ticket office and ticket machines, customer service points, shops, toilets, waiting rooms, lifts from the station subway and step-free access to the platforms.^[5][6]

In 2009, the station was identified as one of the ten worstcategory B interchange stations for mystery shopper assessment of fabric and environment and received a share of £50m funding for improvements.^[7]

Trains running north-west serveManchester Piccadilly; some continue on toManchester Oxford Road and beyond toLiverpool Lime Street viaWarrington Central. There are no longer regular services from here toBolton and points north (passengers should change at Piccadilly or Manchester Oxford Road).

South-east from Stockport, express services run toSheffield and onwards toCleethorpes,Nottingham andNorwich with local services running toHazel Grove andBuxton.

The two southbound West Coast Main Line routes run viaCheadle Hulme. One continues viaMacclesfield andStoke-on-Trent toBirmingham New Street andLondon; the other viaWilmslow andCrewe for through services to London and Birmingham and viaShrewsbury and theWelsh Marches line toCardiff,Carmarthen,Pembroke Dock andMilford Haven. Trains to Birmingham via Stoke-on-Trent continue to destinations in the south of England such asBournemouth viaReading, andBristol Temple Meads.

TheMid-Cheshire Line runs hourly westbound throughAltrincham,Knutsford,Northwich toChester.

TheStockport to Stalybridge Line, viaGuide Bridge, no longer has a regular passenger service. It was reduced from an hourly shuttle service to a once a week, one direction only skeleton service in the early 1990s. It now has two services a week, one in each direction on Saturday mornings.

The main concourse opened in September 2004 in a development that included a new platform (platform 0) that only became fully operational at the beginning of March 2008. A pedestrian subway leads to theisland platforms, which have a buffet and newsagent.

The Monday–Saturday off-peak service pattern in trains per hour (tph) is:

Avanti West Coast

• 3 tph toManchester Piccadilly
• 3 tph toLondon Euston:
  • 1 tph calling atMacclesfield,Stoke-on-Trent,Rugby andMilton Keynes Central
  • 1 tph calling atStoke-on-Trent andNuneaton
  • 1 tph calling atWilmslow,Crewe andStafford^[8]

CrossCountry

• 2 tph toManchester Piccadilly
• 1 tph toBournemouth viaMacclesfield,Birmingham New Street andReading
• 1 tph toBristol Temple Meads viaMacclesfield andBirmingham New Street
  • 2tpd extend from Bristol T.M. toPaignton viaExeter St Davids.^[9]

East Midlands Railway

• 1 tph toLiverpool Lime Street viaWarrington Central
• 1 tph toNorwich viaSheffield andNottingham^[10]

TransPennine Express

• 1 tph toCleethorpes
• 1 tph toLiverpool Lime Street viaWarrington Central^[11]

Transport for Wales Rail

• 1 tph toManchester Piccadilly
• 1 tph toCarmarthen/Milford Haven viaShrewsbury andCardiff Central^[12]

Northern Trains

• 6 tph toManchester Piccadilly
• 1 tph toAlderley Edge
• 1 tph toCrewe^[13]
• 1 tph toHazel Grove
• 1 tph toBuxton
• 1 tph toChester
• 1 tph toStoke-on-Trent^[14]
• 1 train per week on Saturday toStalybridge, viaReddish South,Denton andGuide Bridge.^[15]

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Macclesfield		Avanti West Coast West Coast Main Line		Manchester Piccadilly
Stoke-on-Trent
Wilmslow
Wilmslow		Transport for Wales Rail Welsh Marches Line
Macclesfield		CrossCountry CrossCountry Network
Sheffield		East Midlands Railway Liverpool Lime Street toNorwich
Dore and Totley Limited service
Chinley Limited service
Hazel Grove Limited service
Sheffield		TransPennine Express South TransPennine
Dore & Totley Limited service
Navigation Road		Northern Trains Mid-Cheshire line
Cheadle Hulme		Northern Trains Stoke-on-Trent toManchester Piccadilly
		Northern Trains Crewe–Manchester line		Heaton Chapel
				Manchester Piccadilly
Davenport		Northern Trains Buxton line		Heaton Chapel
Chinley		Northern Trains Hope Valley Line Limited service		Manchester Piccadilly
Hazel Grove
Terminus		Northern Trains Stockport–Stalybridge line Saturdays only		Reddish South
	Previous services
Congleton		CrossCountry Cross Country Network Peak Hours Only Monday-Saturday Only		Manchester Piccadilly

Platform 0 — Typically services to Hazel Grove, Buxton, Sheffield, Norwich, Nottingham and Cleethorpes (opened in 2003).

Platform 1 — southbound services to Macclesfield, Crewe, Stoke-on-Trent and Alderley Edge. It is also signalled for use by trains in the Manchester direction.

Platform 2 — southbound platform for services to Stoke-on-Trent, Chester, Crewe, Alderley Edge, services to South Wales, London, Bristol, Bournemouth, Paignton and Plymouth.

Platform 3 — mainly used by Fast services to Manchester Piccadilly along with services to Manchester Airport, Liverpool Lime Street, Blackpool North, Preston, Salford Crescent, Bolton, Wigan, Southport and Barrow-in-Furness.

Platform 3a — used by the weeklyparliamentary train from / to Stalybridge.

Platform 4 — mainly used by stopping services to Manchester Piccadilly along with services to Manchester Airport, Liverpool Lime Street, Blackpool North, Preston, Salford Crescent, Bolton, Wigan, Southport and Barrow-in-Furness.

It has been claimed that Stockport viaduct was built on condition that all passenger trains using it were required to stop at Stockport station.^[16][17][18] Local MPAndrew Gwynne commissioned research into the issue and reported "Sadly no such Act of Parliament exists, although it is common currency in the town that it does. I made enquiries with the House of Commons Library and the Parliamentary Archives back at the time some intercity trains stopped using Stockport. It appears it is purely an urban myth."^[19]

Passengers can board taxis from thetaxi rank located immediately outside the station entrance.^[20]

The bus stops immediately outside the station were previously served by theMetroshuttle free bus service. This service was withdrawn in 2019,^[21] and as of 2020 the bus stops were only used by the infrequent service number 312^[22] and occasionally byrail replacement buses.

The station is a short walk from the formerStockport bus station, where most services could be accessed until its closure in August 2021.^[23]Transport for Greater Manchester'sStockport Interchange, constructed on the site of the demolished bus station,^[24] opened for passengers on 17 March 2024.^[25] A bridge to improve the walking route between the two facilities was built as part of the development.^[26]

Passengers can also use the bus stops on the nearbyWellington Road which are well-served by services, especially the 192 between Manchester Piccadilly and Hazel Grove, that are mostly operated byStagecoach Manchester.

Stockport Interchange
Metrolink station
General information
Location	Stockport,Stockport England
Coordinates	53°24′18″N2°09′46″W / 53.405°N 2.1628°W /53.405; -2.1628
Other information
Status	Proposed station
Location

An extension to the Metrolink line fromEast Didsbury to Stockport was planned in 2004 and theGreater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive applied for powers to build it. The project came to a halt when theBig Bang extension was stopped due to the loss of potential funding.^[27] As a result, there is currently no tram interchange at Stockport station.

The proposed extension would have reused some of the former railway alignment, but some of it was built on or filled in after closure. This made re-opening more difficult and the proposed line would have included new infrastructure and street running sections to take it into Stockport. The line would have terminated atStockport bus station.^[27]

• Stockport Tiviot Dale railway station

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014).Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 78-88.ISBN 9781908174574.OCLC 892047119.

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