Levenshulme railway station
Levenshulme railway station is in Levenshulme, Manchester, England. The station is 3.1 miles (5 km) south east of Manchester Piccadilly towards Stockport.
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Front entrance to Levenshulme Railway Station | |
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Place | Levenshulme |
Local authority | Manchester |
Grid reference | SJ872941 |
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Station code | LVM |
Managed by | Northern Trains |
Number of platforms | 2 |
DfT category | E |
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PTE | Transport for Greater Manchester |
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Four tracks go through the station, with the centre tracks used by fast trains and the outer by stopping trains.
Services
As of December 2018, there are four trains per hour from Levenshulme in each direction during off-peak weekday hours and all day Saturdays.[1] The calling pattern is not, however, regular in either direction.
All northbound trains run to Manchester Piccadilly. Southbound trains run to Alderley Edge and Hazel Grove (2tph to each), with one of the former extending through to Crewe and one of the latter to Buxton.
On Sundays, there are two trains per hour to Hazel Grove, with hourly extensions to Buxton southbound and two per hour to Piccadilly. There are a few stops by local trains running between Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester.
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Northern Trains Crewe-Manchester Line | Manchester Piccadilly |
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Northern Trains Mid-Cheshire 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.[2]
References
- Table 84 & 86 National Rail timetable, December 2018
- 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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Levenshulme railway station. |
- 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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