Levenshulme
National Rail
Front entrance to Levenshulme Railway Station
General information
LocationLevenshulme, Manchester
England
Grid referenceSJ872941
Managed byNorthern Trains
Transit authorityTransport for Greater Manchester
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeLVM
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Opened??? As Levenshulme and Burnage
Key dates
1 July 1910Station name changed to Levenshulme[1]
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 0.530 million
2019/20Increase 0.542 million
2020/21Decrease 0.140 million
2021/22Increase 0.384 million
2022/23Increase 0.408 million
Location
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Levenshulme railway station is in Levenshulme, Manchester, England. The station is 3.1 miles (5 km) south east of Manchester Piccadilly towards Stockport.

Four tracks go through the station, with the centre tracks used by fast trains and the outer by stopping trains.

Services

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.

On Sundays, the service is reduced to 1 train per hour between Manchester Piccadilly and Buxton.

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
Northern Trains
Monday to Saturday
Northern Trains

Signage

As well as English, the platform signs give the station name in Irish and Urdu, reflecting the immigrant communities from Ireland and Pakistan which live in the area.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Minute No. 6359". Minutes of Meeting of the Superintendents' Conference (Report). London: Railway Clearing House. 2 July 1910. (Unpublished).
  2. ↑ Table 84 & 86 National Rail timetable, December 2022
  3. ↑ Railway Codes, 18 June 2019

Further reading

  • Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 100-102. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.
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