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A map of the stations in the group and future improvements as part of the Northern Hub. Salford Central is not part of the Manchester station group. Many journeys which call at Manchester stations slow down due to the populated nature of Greater Manchester and congested routes; Network Rail have described it as a 'bottleneck'.
The four main railway stations in Manchester city centre are Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road and Manchester Deansgate which all form part of the Manchester station group. Most services run to or through one of Manchester city centre's major stations, Manchester Victoria and Manchester Piccadilly.
Manchester, England. Manchester station group, a station fare group composed of: Manchester Oxford Road railway station; Manchester Piccadilly station, the main railway station; Manchester Victoria station, a railway station and tram stop; Deansgate railway station; Manchester Airport station, a multi-modal station at Manchester Airport
Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England.Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960.
The original station buildings were situated on Hewitt Street. [1] The station was opened as Knot Mill and Deansgate on 20 July 1849 by the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway [2] (MSJAR) near the Manchester terminus ('the Knot Mill station' [3]) of the Bridgewater Canal from which travellers could catch a fast packet in 1849 which could get them to Liverpool in four and a half ...
Manchester City Centre has four railway stations in the Manchester station group: Piccadilly, Victoria, Oxford Road and Deansgate. Manchester Piccadilly station is the largest station in the City with 14 platforms plus 2 Metrolink tram platforms, located on the southeast side of the city centre not far from Piccadilly Gardens, the Gay Village ...
The station opened as Oxford Road on 20 July 1849 and was the headquarters of the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJAR) until 1904. [12] The station was built on the site of 'Little Ireland', a slum "of a worse character than St Giles", [13] in which about four thousand people had lived in "measureless filth and stench" [14] (according to Friedrich Engels in The Condition ...
Manchester Victoria station in Manchester, England, is a combined mainline railway station and Metrolink tram stop. Situated to the north of the city centre on Hunts Bank, close to Manchester Cathedral , it adjoins Manchester Arena which was constructed on part of the former station site in the 1990s.