Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester,in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester,England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842,it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of the city centre,it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London,Birmingham,Nottingham,Glasgow,Edinburgh,Cardiff,Bristol,Exeter,Plymouth,Reading,Southampton and Bournemouth;regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool,Leeds,Sheffield,Newcastle and York;and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by Network Rail. The station has 14 platforms:12 terminal and two through platforms. Piccadilly is also a major interchange with the Metrolink light rail system with two tram platforms in its undercroft.
Gorton is an area of Manchester in Greater Manchester,England. It is to the southeast of Manchester city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 36,055. Neighbouring areas include Levenshulme and Openshaw.
The Woodhead line was a railway line linking Sheffield,Penistone and Manchester in the north of England. A key feature of the route is the passage under the high moorlands of the northern Peak District through the Woodhead Tunnels. The line was electrified in 1953 and closed between Hadfield and Penistone in 1981.
Dore &Totley railway station serves the south-western Sheffield suburbs of Dore and Totley in South Yorkshire,England;it is sited 4+3⁄4 miles (7.6 km) south of Sheffield. The station is served by the Northern Trains route between Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly,East Midlands Railway's service from Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich,and the TransPennine Express service between Liverpool and Cleethorpes;all three run via the Hope Valley Line.
Stockport railway station serves the large market and industrial town of Stockport in Greater Manchester,England. It is located 6 miles south-east of Manchester Piccadilly,on a spur of the West Coast Main Line to London Euston.
Grindleford railway station serves the village of Grindleford in the Derbyshire Peak District,England. It is located 1 mile (1.6 km) away from the village centre in Nether Padley. The station is a stop on the Hope Valley line between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield.
Hazel Grove railway station is a junction on both the Stockport to Buxton and Stockport to Sheffield lines,serving the village of Hazel Grove,Greater Manchester,England.
Stalybridge railway station serves Stalybridge,Greater Manchester,England. It lies on the Huddersfield Line,7+1⁄2 miles (12.1 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly and 8+1⁄4 miles (13.3 km) east of Manchester Victoria. The station is managed by TransPennine Express.
Belle Vue railway station serves the area of Belle Vue,Manchester,England. It is a stop on the Hope Valley line for services between Manchester Piccadilly and New Mills Central.
Ashburys railway station serves the area of Openshaw,in Greater Manchester,England. It is a stop on a junction of the Glossop Line,the Hope Valley line and the freight line to Phillips Park Junction. It has been open since 1855 and is the nearest station to the City of Manchester Stadium.
Guide Bridge railway station serves Guide Bridge in Audenshaw,Greater Manchester,England,and is operated by Northern Trains. The station is 4+3⁄4 miles (7.6 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly on both the Rose Hill Marple and Glossop Lines.
Gorton railway station serves the Gorton district of the city of Manchester,England. It is sited 2+1⁄2 miles (4.0 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly. The station is a stop on the Glossop and Hope Valley lines;Northern Trains operate all services that stop here and also manage the station.
The Manchester–Sheffield–Wath electric railway was an electrification scheme on British railways. The route featured long ascents on both sides of the Pennines with the long Woodhead Tunnel at its central summit close to the Woodhead pass. This led to the route being called the Woodhead Line.
Dinting railway station serves the village of Dinting in Derbyshire,England. It is a stop on the Glossop line and,prior to the Woodhead Line's closure in 1981,Dinting was a station on the Great Central Main Line between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria.
Openshaw is a suburb of Manchester,Greater Manchester,England,about three miles east of the Manchester city centre. Historically part of Lancashire,Openshaw was incorporated into the city of Manchester in 1890. Its name derives from the Old English Opinschawe,which means an open wood or coppice.
Fallowfield railway station is a disused station that is located on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield,a southern suburb of Manchester,England. It was on the Fallowfield Loop railway line,a suburban railway which looped around the south of the city and terminated at the former Manchester Central railway station. The station closed to passengers in 1958,but its building still stands on the corner of Wilmslow Road and Ladybarn Road.
Hyde Road was a railway station in Gorton,Manchester,England,on the Fallowfield Loop Line. It opened in 1892 and closed in 1958,when local passenger services on the line were withdrawn. The station was sometimes advertised as Hyde Road for Belle Vue,given its close proximity to Belle Vue Zoo which was about one mile away. The line was closed completely in 1988 and the track was taken up. The station has long since been demolished and the site was partly redeveloped. The former trackbed is now a popular shared use path called the Fallowfield Loop.
The Fallowfield Loop railway line was a local railway route in south Manchester,England. Trains on the Manchester,Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) line from Sheffield Victoria and Guide Bridge used the Loop to access Manchester Central. Some express trains,including the Harwich-Liverpool boat train,used the line.
Wilbraham Road railway station was in Whalley Range,Manchester,England,on the Fallowfield Loop line between Manchester Central and Fairfield,via Chorlton. Opened as Alexandra Park in 1892 by the Manchester,Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway,it was near the junction of Alexandra Road South and Mauldeth Road West,close to Alexandra Park,and served the expanding residential suburb of Whalley Range. The railway line has since been converted into a shared use path.
The Fallowfield Loop is an off-road cycle path,pedestrian and horse riding route in the south of Manchester,England,which is one of the National Cycle Network routes and paths;it was developed and built by Sustrans,forming part of routes 6 and 60.
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