Levenshulme railway station

Levenshulme
Front entrance to Levenshulme Railway Station
General information
Location	Levenshulme, Manchester England
Grid reference	SJ872941
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	Transport for Greater Manchester
Platforms	2
Tracks	4
Other information
Station code	LVM
Classification	DfT category E
History
Opened	??? As Levenshulme and Burnage
Key dates
1 July 1910	Station name changed to Levenshulme[1]
Passengers
2018/19	0.530 million
2019/20	0.542 million
2020/21	0.140 million
2021/22	0.384 million
2022/23	0.408 million
Location
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Levenshulme railway station is in Levenshulme, Manchester, England. The station is 3.1 miles (5 km) south east of Manchester Piccadilly towards Stockport.

Four tracks go through the station, with the centre tracks used by fast trains and the outer by stopping trains.

Services

As of December 2022, there are four trains per hour from Levenshulme in each direction during off-peak weekday hours and all day Saturdays.^[2] All northbound services run to Manchester Piccadilly. Southbound, 1 train per hour runs to each of Alderley Edge, Crewe, Hazel Grove and Buxton.

On Sundays, the service is reduced to 1 train per hour between Manchester Piccadilly and Buxton.

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Heaton Chapel		Northern Trains Crewe–Manchester line Monday to Saturday		Manchester Piccadilly
		Northern Trains Buxton line

Signage

As well as English, the platform signs give the station name in Irish and Urdu, reflecting the immigrant communities from Ireland and Pakistan which live in the area.^[3]

References

Further reading

• Mitchell, Vic; Smith, Keith (2014). Crewe to Manchester. Middleton Press. figs. 100-102. ISBN 9781908174574. OCLC 892047119.

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