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Styal railway station

Railway station in Cheshire, England

Summary

Railway station in Cheshire, England

Field	Value
name	Styal
symbol_location	gb
symbol	rail
image	Styal railway station, Cheshire - geograph.org.uk - 2333614.jpg
caption	Styal railway station in 2011
borough	Styal, Cheshire,
country	England
grid_name	Grid reference
grid_position
manager	Northern Trains
platforms	2
code	SYA
classification	DfT category F1
years	1909
events	Opened
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2020/21	passengers= 1,922}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2021/22	passengers= 11,498}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2022/23	passengers= 21,454}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2023/24	passengers= 23,568}}
{{Rail pass box	pass_year	2024/25	passengers= 28,058}}
footnotes	Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Styal railway station serves the village of Styal, in Cheshire, England. It is a stop on the Styal Line, which links , and .

History

The station was opened in 1909, with the construction of the line from Wilmslow to Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly).

It won numerous best-kept station garden awards in the 1940s and 1950s under stationmasters Mott, Hilton and Jackson. The garden is long abandoned, but there were plans to uncover and restore some of it in spring 2011.

Styal enjoyed a half-hourly service in each direction until the mid-1990s. The construction of the airport rail link in 1993 saw services reduced, with only 8 trains per day in each direction on Monday to Saturday; on Sundays, there was a two hourly service in each direction. This was gradually reduced down to a skeletal Monday - Saturday service and no Sunday service.

A petition was created to seek a resumption of a morning commuter service to Manchester and daytime services to serve HMP Styal, National Trust Styal and local residents.

Services were temporarily suspended in summer 2020 and again in early 2021, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; they have since been reinstated.

Location

Styal station is on Station Road, to the east of the main road in the centre of the village.

It is sited close to the edge of the National Trust's Quarry Bank Mill/Styal Estate and Styal Women's Prison and Young Offenders' Institute.

Facilities

The station has the following facilities:

A ticket machine
Customer information screens on both platforms
Step-free access to both platforms
A car park, beside the southbound platform.

Services

Northern Trains operates all stopping services. The Monday-Saturday service pattern consists of one train per hour in each direction between and , via .

On evenings and Sundays, there is an hourly service each way between and , via Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport.

References

(2024). "History". Friends of Styal Station.
(12 January 2013). "Styal station's single service". Manchester Evening News.
"Styal (SYA)".
(10 December 2023). "Timetables and engineering information for travel with Northern". Northern Railway.

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