Alsager railway station

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.

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 Kidsgrove 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. ^[4]

Services

Services at Alsager are operated by East Midlands Railway using Class 170 diesel multiple units and by London Northwestern Railway using Class 350 electric multiple units.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is as follows:

• 1 tph to Lincoln, via Stoke-on-Trent, Derby and Nottingham ^[5]
• 1 tph to Stafford, via Stoke ^[6]
• 2 tph to Crewe only. ^{[5] [6]}

On Sundays, there is an hourly service between Crewe and Stafford; hourly services operate between Crewe and Derby after 14:00 only.

Alsager
Alsager station in 2025
General information
Location	Alsager, Cheshire East, England
Coordinates	53°05′34″N2°17′53″W / 53.0928°N 2.2981°W / 53.0928; -2.2981
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 as Alsager [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
2020/21	27,572

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Crewe		East Midlands Railway Crewe–Derby line		Kidsgrove
Crewe		London Northwestern Railway Crewe-Stafford		Kidsgrove

References

Citations

1. Quick 2009, p. 58.
2. Hartless, Adrian (April 2019). "1.Leek-Stoke-Crewe". Lines North of Stoke to Crewe, Congleton and Leek. Midhurst: Middleton Press. ISBN   9781910356296. XVIII.The goods station west of the passenger station, closed from 2 November 1964
3. "Glancing Back… in photos". Congleton Chronicle . 23 May 2024. p. 16.
4. "Alsager (ASG)". National Rail. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
5. "Train Timetables". East Midlands Railway. 14 December 2025. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
6. "Train timetables and schedules". London Northwestern Railway. 14 December 2025. Retrieved 25 January 2026.

Sources

• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC   22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN   978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC   612226077.

External links

• Train times and station information for Alsager railway station from National Rail

• Pictures of the station during diversions

• The station on a navigable O.S. map