Levenshulme railway station

This article is about the present-day station. For the station which closed in 1958, see Levenshulme South 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
2019/20	0.542 million
2020/21	0.140 million
2021/22	0.384 million
2022/23	0.408 million
2023/24	0.454 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

A Northern Rail Class 150 stops at the station.

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

1. "Minute No. 6359". Minutes of Meeting of the Superintendents' Conference (Report). London: Railway Clearing House. 2 July 1910. (Unpublished).
2. Table 84 & 86 National Rail timetable, December 2022
3. Railway Codes, 18 June 2019

Further reading

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

External links

• Train times and station information for Levenshulme railway station from National Rail
• Voices - Friends of Levenshulme station BBC Where I Live Manchester website

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