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Alsager railway station
Railway station in Cheshire, England
Railway station in Cheshire, England
| Field | Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Alsager | ||
| symbol_location | gb | ||
| symbol | rail | ||
| image | Alsager Station 2025.jpg | ||
| caption | Alsager station in 2025 | ||
| borough | Alsager, Cheshire East, | ||
| country | England | ||
| coordinates | |||
| grid_name | Grid reference | ||
| grid_position | |||
| manager | East Midlands Railway | ||
| platforms | 2 | ||
| code | ASG | ||
| classification | DfT category F1 | ||
| years | 9 October 1848 | ||
| events | Opened as Alsager | ||
| years1 | April 1889 | ||
| events1 | Renamed Alsager Rode Heath | ||
| years2 | 2 April 1923 | ||
| events2 | Renamed Alsager | ||
| years3 | 2 November 1964 | ||
| events3 | Closed to goods | ||
| years4 | 1985 | ||
| events4 | Signal box demolished | ||
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2020/21 | passengers= 27,572}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2021/22 | passengers= 77,184}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2022/23 | passengers= 94,662}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2023/24 | passengers= 101,420}} |
| {{Rail pass box | pass_year | 2024/25 | passengers= 115,024}} |
| footnotes | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road |
Alsager railway station serves the town of Alsager, in Cheshire, England. It stands next to a level crossing and is approximately 600 yards from the town centre. The station is 6+1/2 mi east of on the Crewe–Derby line, which is also a community rail line known as the North Staffordshire line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway.
History
The station was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway company on 9 October 1848; it later became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways until the privatisation of British Rail.
The line through Alsager was electrified in 2003, so that it could be used as a diversionary route between and Crewe during West Coast Main Line engineering works.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed; the full range of tickets for travel can be purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost or from the ticket machine on platform 2. There is a car park with 14 spaces.
Services
Services at Alsager are operated by East Midlands Railway using diesel multiple units and by London Northwestern Railway using electric multiple units.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is as follows:
- 1 tph to , via , and
- 1 tph to , via Stoke
- 2 tph to only.
On Sundays, there is an hourly service between Crewe and Stafford; hourly services operate between Crewe and Derby after 14:00 only.
References
Citations
Sources
References
- Hartless, Adrian. (April 2019). "Lines North of Stoke to Crewe, Congleton and Leek". Middleton Press.
- (23 May 2024). "Glancing Back… in photos". [[Congleton Chronicle]].
- "Alsager (ASG)". National Rail.
- (14 December 2025). "Train Timetables". East Midlands Railway.
- (14 December 2025). "Train timetables and schedules". London Northwestern Railway.
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