Stockport station weekly service pattern

[Paul’s]

The weekday service pattern is (tph = trains per hour):

• Transport for Wales
  • 1 tph to Manchester Piccadilly
  • 1 tph to Carmarthen/Milford Haven via Shrewsburyand Cardiff Central
• CrossCountry
  • 2 tph to Manchester Piccadilly
  • 1 tph to Bournemouth via Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham New Street
  • 1 tph to Bristol Temple Meads via Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham New Street,of which some continue to Paignton or Plymouth.
• East Midlands Trains
  • 1 tph to Liverpool Lime Street
  • 1 tph to Norwich via Sheffield and Nottingham
• TransPennine Express
  • 1 tph to Cleethorpes
  • 1 tph to Manchester Airport via Manchester Piccadilly
• Northern
  • 6 tph to Manchester Piccadilly (with 1 tph continuing to Bolton and Wigan North Western)
  • 2 tph to Alderley Edge (with 1 tph continuing to Crewe)
  • 3 tph to Hazel Grove (with 2 tph continuing to Buxton)
  • 1 tph to Chester
  • 1 tph to Stoke-on-Trent via Macclesfield
  • 1 train per week to Stalybridge
• Virgin Trains
  • 3 tph to Manchester Piccadilly
  • 2 tph to London Euston via Stoke-on-Trent
  • 1 tph to London Euston via Crewe.

 

[Ianno87]

Northern run some extra peak trains too - off memory extras towards Chester (making 2tph), and an extra stopper to Macclesfield (in which hour one of the XCs diverts via Crewe to give the path)

 

[Paul’s]

Thanks, I was wondering what time of day is best to be at Stockport, or better to go to Manchester Piccadilly station.

 

[Kite159]

For spotting, Piccadilly hands down. Pretty much everything which goes via Stockport will head towards Piccadilly (bar some freight services which go via Denton & the Saturday flyer)

 

[Ianno87]

Stockport middle of day is probably fairly interesting (there's a near constant flow of trains), but daytime you get the odd freight via Denton Jn.

Otherwise basically everything you see at Stockport you see at Piccadilly (plus more, of course)

 

[Shaw S Hunter]

For spotting, Piccadilly hands down. Pretty much everything which goes via Stockport will head towards Piccadilly (bar some freight services which go via Denton & the Saturday flyer)

Unless you also have an interest in airliners. Under prevailing wind conditions aircraft on approach to Manchester pass almost immediately overhead Stockport station low enough for registrations to be readable with the aid of binoculars (and in some cases without visual aids).

 

[Mag_seven]

Unless you also have an interest in airliners. Under prevailing wind conditions aircraft on approach to Manchester pass almost immediately overhead Stockport station low enough for registrations to be readable with the aid of binoculars (and in some cases without visual aids).

Same can be said about Clapham Junction.

 

[CHAPS2034]

Unless you also have an interest in airliners. Under prevailing wind conditions aircraft on approach to Manchester pass almost immediately overhead Stockport station low enough for registrations to be readable with the aid of binoculars (and in some cases without visual aids).

Looks like for the next 10 days or so all the arrivals will be from the west over Knutsford. S some departures will be seen but many some distance away.