Hazel Grove railway station
railway station in Hazel Grove, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Hazel Grove railway station serves the village of Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester, England. It is a junction station, serving both the Buxton line (from Stockport to Buxton) and the Hope Valley line (from Stockport to Sheffield). The station is managed by Northern Trains, which operates all trains that stop here.
History
The station was built for the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway, by the London and North Western Railway, and opened on 9 June 1857. From 1923 until 1948, it was owned by the London Midland and Scottish Railway and, following nationalisation, it was operated by the London Midland Region of British Railways.
There was once another station in the village, Hazel Grove (Midland) on the Midland Railway's line from New Mills South Junction to Manchester Central, via Cheadle Heath; this opened in 1902, but it was less conveniently situated and closed in 1917.
The Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway was extremely expensive to build, with extensive earthworks required. The navvies were accommodated in specially-built houses near the Rising Sun pub, which still exist and are known as the Navvy Mansions. The line from Edgeley Junction, just south of Stockport, to Hazel Grove was electrified in 1981 on the 25 kV AC overhead system. This allowed electric trains to operate on the route from Altrincham, via Sale to serve the station until that line was closed for conversion to Manchester Metrolink operation in late 1991; electric services to and from Piccadilly continued thereafter.
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