General information | |||||
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Location | Alsager, Cheshire East England | ||||
Coordinates | 53°05′34″N2°17′53″W / 53.0928°N 2.2981°W | ||||
Grid reference | SJ800551 | ||||
Managed by | East Midlands Railway | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | ASG | ||||
Classification | DfT category F1 | ||||
Key dates | |||||
9 October 1848 | Opened [1] | ||||
April 1889 | Renamed Alsager Rode Heath [1] | ||||
2 April 1923 | Renamed Alsager [1] | ||||
2 November 1964 | Closed to goods [2] | ||||
1985 | Signal box demolished [3] | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2018/19 | 116,446 | ||||
2019/20 | 128,254 | ||||
2020/21 | 27,572 | ||||
2021/22 | 77,184 | ||||
2022/23 | 94,662 | ||||
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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 miles (10.5 km) east of Crewe 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.
The station is unstaffed. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost.
It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway company on 9 October 1848; later becoming 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 on 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 Kidsgrove and Crewe during West Coast Main Line improvement work.
Services at Alsager are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 170 DMUs and by London Northwestern Railway using Class 350 EMUs.
The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is as follows:
On Sundays, there is an hourly service between Crewe and Stafford. Hourly Sunday services operate between Crewe and Derby after 14:00 only.
Preceding station | National Rail | Following station | ||
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Kidsgrove | East Midlands Railway | Crewe | ||
London Northwestern Railway |
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XVIII.The goods station west of the passenger station, closed from 2 November 1964