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.

The station is unstaffed. The full range of tickets for travel are purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost.

History

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

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:

• 1 tph to Stafford ^[4]
• 1 tph to Newark Castle via Derby and Nottingham ^[5]
• 2 tph to Crewe only

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

Alsager
Alsager railway 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 [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
2019/20	128,254

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kidsgrove		East Midlands Railway Crewe to Derby Line		Crewe
Crewe Terminus		London Northwestern Railway Stafford–Crewe		Kidsgrove towards Stafford

References

Notes

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. "Timetable | Crewe to Stafford via Stoke-on-Trent | 10 December 2023 to 1 June 2024". London Northwestern Railway. 10 December 2023.
5. "EMR Regional Train Timetable | Crewe - Newark Castle". East Midlands Railway.

Sources

• 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.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN   978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC   228266687.
• 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.
• Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

• Train times and station information for Alsager railway station from National Rail
• Pictures of the station during diversions