Goostrey railway station serves the village of
Goostrey
Goostrey is an old farming village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is located in open countryside, 14 miles NE of Crewe and 12 miles W of Ma ...
in
Cheshire
Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...
, England. The station is on the
Crewe to Manchester Line
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston, ...
10½ miles (16 km) north east of
Crewe
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston ...
.
History
The line was built by the
Manchester and Birmingham Railway
The Manchester and Birmingham Railway was built between Manchester and Crewe and opened in stages from 1840. Between Crewe and Birmingham, trains were worked by the Grand Junction Railway. The M&BR was merged into the London and North Western ...
Company and completed on 10 August 1842. Goostrey station was added by the London & North Western Railway Company, opening on 1 September 1891. In a 1971 photo a
keystone on the platform at the foot of a mast had the MBR coat of arms and an inscription, MBR 1844
G. W. Buck Engineer''
'. In 1958 it had been removed from the Manchester side of the road bridge at the station, when it was rebuilt to provide clearance for the electric wires; the keystone on the Crewe side showed W. Baker as engineer, but was broken when it was removed.
Service
There is generally an hourly service southbound to Crewe and northbound to
Manchester Piccadilly
Manchester Piccadilly is the principal railway station in Manchester, England. Opened 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 Manchester city ...
via
Stockport
Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here.
Most of the town is within ...
with a limited number of services a day to Manchester via
Manchester Airport
Manchester Airport is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England, south-west of Manchester city centre. In 2019, it was the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom in terms of passenger numbers and the busiest of those n ...
(peak hours only).
The May 2018 timetable also saw the introduction of an hourly Sunday service to Manchester Piccadilly and Crewe. Services are operated by
Northern
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Geography
* North, a point in direction
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* Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States
* Northern Province, Sri Lanka
* Northern Range, a ra ...
.
Friends of Goostrey Station
A Friends Group was founded on 1 May 2012.
References
Further reading
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External links
Crewe-Manchester Community Rail PartnershipOfficial website for the Friends of Goostrey Station
Railway stations in Cheshire
DfT Category F2 stations
Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1891
Northern franchise railway stations
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