Humphrey Park railway station
railway station in Humphrey Park, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Humphrey Park railway station is in the Trafford metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in the north west of England. The station, opened on 15 October 1984 by British Rail as an experimental station, is 4+1⁄4 miles (6.8 km) west of Manchester Oxford Road station on the Manchester-Liverpool Line. The station and all services calling there are operated by Northern Trains.
Facilities
The station has no station building, no ticket machines and is unstaffed. There are CCTV cameras operating here. Each platform has waiting shelters, with seating available on only one side (towards Liverpool). Step-free access is available to both platforms via ramps from the road below. Train running information can be obtained from timetable posters and by phone. The station is undergoing a community regeneration, planters of herbs and seasonal vegetables are scheduled for 2025, along with a rhubarb themed mural, linking in with the regeneration of Stretford. The station is equipped with a defibrillator.
“Humphrey Park railway station” enters the record as railway station in Humphrey Park, Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Humphrey, Park and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Humphrey Park railway station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Humphrey, Park and railway provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1957035. Authority coordinates are 53.452, -2.327. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2025.
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This entry incorporates text from “Humphrey Park railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.