Burnage
National Rail
General information
LocationBurnage, Manchester
England
Grid referenceSJ857917
Managed byNorthern Trains
Transit authorityGreater Manchester
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeBNA
ClassificationDfT category E
History
Opened1910
Key dates
1958Reconstructed
2007Reconstruction of platforms
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 0.212 million
2019/20Increase 0.213 million
2020/21Decrease 37,962
2021/22Increase 0.135 million
2022/23Increase 0.142 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Burnage railway station is a railway station in south Manchester, England, in the suburb of Burnage on the Styal Line. The station is served by ManchesterCrewe Northern Trains stopping services to Manchester Airport. It caters mainly for commuter traffic, being electrified at 25 kV AC overhead, and is used by EMU traffic.

The station sits on the Styal Line to Manchester Airport, one of the congested lines on the national rail network.[1] Historically it has been served by a half-hourly service to Manchester Airport/Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly.

Since May 2018 services operate on a 'skip-stop' basis at irregular intervals to increase capacity on the line. As a designated Northern Connect stop, a direct express service to Blackpool North via Chorley was introduced as part of this timetable change. This was replaced by calls on services between Windermere/Barrow-in-Furness and Manchester Airport running via Wigan North Western as part of the December 2019 timetable change.

Services

View northward, towards Manchester (London Road) in 1965
The entrance to Burnage Railway Station

The current Monday to Saturday service is a roughly half hourly service to Manchester Airport and Manchester Piccadilly, with one southbound train per hour continuing to Crewe via Wilmslow, and one northbound train per hour continuing to Liverpool Lime Street via Newton-le-Willows.[2]

On Sundays, the service is reduced to one train per hour between Liverpool Lime Street and Wilmslow.

Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
Northern Trains
Northern Trains
local stopping service
Monday to Saturday

References

  1. ^ "Timetable recast: too much, too quickly". Railway Gazette. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  2. ^ Table 85 National Rail timetable, May 2023

Further reading

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