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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.
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.
The station was opened by British Rail. As part of the failed Manchester TIF bid, the station would have been refurbished with CCTV, real-time passenger information and additional seating and shelters. [3] The bid failed after residents of Greater Manchester voted against the congestion charge. [4]
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 ...
The Glossop line is a railway line connecting the city of Manchester with the towns of Hadfield and Glossop in Derbyshire, England. It formed part of the historic Great Central Main Line between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria. Passenger services on the line are operated by Northern Trains.
A Northern Rail Class 150 stops at the station. As of December 2022, there are four trains per hour from Levenshulme in each direction during off-peak weekday hours and all day Saturdays. [2] All northbound services run to Manchester Piccadilly. Southbound, 1 train per hour runs to each of Alderley Edge, Crewe, Hazel Grove and Buxton.
The line begins at Chester and runs northwards. At Mickle Trafford the Mid-Cheshire Line diverges north-easterly to Manchester which is primarily used by local trains. Most trains between the Chester and Manchester instead use the Chester–Warrington line on the whole length and continue via the L&MR Liverpool–Manchester line.
Manchester London Road railway station (now Piccadilly) was opened on 8 May 1842. [1] London Road was the terminus for two trunk lines approaching the city from the south and east: the Manchester and Birmingham Railway from Stockport and Crewe, and the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, which at that point ran only as far as Godley, but would eventually be extended to ...