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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.
In October 2023, the operator announced that it would be temporarily cutting services from 320 services per day to 300, reducing off-peak trains between the cities of Leeds and Manchester, with the goal of improving both punctuality and reliability. TransPennine Trains' managing director, Chris Jackson, stated that this move allowed for greater ...
Any route is permitted, so the passenger has a choice of embarking from either Piccadilly, Oxford Road or Deansgate on the TransPennine Express North West route, the Northern route or from Victoria by Northern Trains. The Manchester station group is a station group (for fares purposes) of four railway stations in Manchester city centre, England ...
Trains to Manchester Airport have been affected by the theft of more than £100,000 of power cable from a railway line. The signalling cables were stolen from the railway line between Preston and ...
Panoramic view of the completed Ordsall Chord with the River Irwell, Aviva studios and the Prince's bridge in 2024. Ordsall Chord, also known as the Castlefield Curve, is a short railway line in Ordsall, Salford, England, which links Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road to Manchester Victoria, designed to increase capacity and reduce journey times into and through Manchester.
A rail tunnel has been proposed for the corridor, as part of the Greater Manchester Transport Strategy 2040. [ 9 ] UK rail advocacy group Railfuture has noted that the reinstatement of the Glazebrook East Junction–Skelton Junction line , along with its former branch to Carrington Power Station and an extension of the branch to Flixton , would ...
TransPennine Express had depots for its train crews at Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Airport (conductors), York, Newcastle, Scarborough, Hull, Cleethorpes, Sheffield, Preston, Liverpool Lime Street and Glasgow Central.
Northern Trains operate local services over the full length of the line. These include limited stop workings from Manchester Airport and Hazel Grove via Manchester Piccadilly to Blackpool North, along with Manchester Victoria to Preston services and a limited number of Manchester Airport to Barrow-in-Furness and Windermere trains.