History
The station was opened in 1909,with the construction of the line from Wilmslow to Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly).
It won numerous best-kept station garden awards in the 1940s and 1950s under stationmasters Mott,Hilton and Jackson. [1] The garden is long abandoned,but there were plans to uncover and restore some of it in spring 2011.
Styal enjoyed a half-hourly service in each direction until the mid-1990s. The construction of the airport rail link in 1993 saw services reduced,with only 8 trains per day in each direction on Monday to Saturday;on Sundays,there was a two hourly service in each direction. This was gradually reduced down to a skeletal Monday - Saturday service and no Sunday service.
A petition was created to seek a resumption of a morning commuter service to Manchester and daytime services to serve HMP Styal,National Trust Styal and local residents. [2]
Services were temporarily suspended in summer 2020 and again in early 2021,as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic;they have since been reinstated.
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