Moston railway station

Moston railway station in Moston, Manchester, England, is 4 miles (6 km) north of Manchester Victoria on the Caldervale Line managed by Northern.

Moston
Moston railway station, looking south
Location
PlaceMoston
Local authorityManchester
Grid referenceSD887029
Operations
Station codeMSO
Managed byNorthern
Number of platforms2
DfT categoryF2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 82,486
2015/16 71,732
2016/17 68,174
2017/18 55,688
2018/19 70,464
History
February 1872Station opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Moston from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Moston station opened in February 1872.[1] It is on Hollinwood Avenue, in New Moston, and is unstaffed, the station buildings having been demolished in the late 1990s. Tickets must be purchased on the train.

Services

On Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is now a half-hourly service in operation here once again. Train operator Arriva Rail North (under the brand name Northern) had committed to reinstate the 30-minute frequency as part of its successful 2015 franchise bid.[2] Previous operator Serco-Abellio had cut the off-peak frequency here to hourly in May 2014. Northbound trains now run to Rochdale, where connections are available for stations further afield, and southbound trains run to Manchester Victoria and thence to Bolton, Blackburn and Clitheroe (alternate trains only).[3]

On Sundays the Southport - Wigan Wallgate - Manchester - Blackburn - Clitheroe service calls hourly each way.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Manchester Victoria   Northern
Caldervale Line or
Todmorden/Rochdale-Kirkby/Wigan Wallgate		   Mills Hill
  Historical railways  
Newton Heath
Line open, station closed		   Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway   Middleton Junction
Line open, station closed
  • Moston railway station, looking north
  • Platform 2, in 1989

Notes
  1. Butt 1995, p. 164
  2. "Northern Franchise Improvements - DfT". Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  3. Table 41 National Rail timetable, May 2018

References
  • Bairstow, Martin. The Manchester and Leeds Railway.
  • Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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