Moston railway station

Moston
Moston railway station, looking south
Location
Place	Moston
Local authority	Manchester
Grid reference	SD887029
Operations
Station code	MSO
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	48,733
2005/06	52,205
2006/07	51,573
2007/08	57,546
2008/09	76,762
2009/10	89,032
2010/11	0.110 million
2011/12	0.140 million
2012/13	0.134 million
2013/14	0.126 million
2014/15	82,486
History
February 1872	Station 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.
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Moston railway station serves Moston, Manchester, England. It is 4 miles (6 km) north of Manchester Victoria on the Caldervale Line managed by Northern.

Moston station opened in February 1872.^[1] It is located on Hollinwood Avenue, in New Moston. It 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 an hourly service to Manchester Victoria southbound and to Rochdale and on to Leeds via Dewsbury northbound ^[2] on the Caldervale Line. Some extra services call at peak periods, but since the May 2014 timetable change the service frequency has been cut from its previous half-hourly pattern to the present hourly one. New Northern franchise operator Arriva Rail North, under the brand name 'Northern' (who will take over in April 2016) plans to reinstate the 30-minute frequency in the future.^[3]

In the evenings there is an hourly service to Manchester Victoria and to Leeds via Halifax, whilst on Sundays the hourly Manchester - Blackburn service calls.

Gallery

• 
  Moston railway station, looking north
• 
  Platform 2, in 1989

Notes

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. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Moston railway station.

• Train times and station information for Moston railway station from National Rail

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		L&YR		Middleton Junction Line open, station closed

Manchester Lines
Legend
City Centre and North: Past, Present and Future  Manchester Metrolink Main Line services   to Rochdale to Oldham Moston Newton Heath Newton Heath and Moston to Bury Bowker Vale Crumpsall to Tameside Abraham Moss Clayton Bridge Woodlands Road Park Queens Road Central Park Monsall to Tameside Miles Platting Edge Lane Clayton Hall Oldham Road Velopark Manchester Victoria Holt Town Exchange to Salford Etihad Campus New Islington Ardwick Shudehill Ashburys High Street; Manchester Piccadilly Mayfield Market Street; Piccadilly Gardens to South Manchester Exchange Square Gorton Mosley Street Oxford Road St Peter's Square to Belle Vue Manchester Central ; Deansgate- Castlefield Deansgate Liverpool Road to Hyde Road to Tameside Cornbrook Cornbrook to Salford Pomona to Eccles Trafford Bar to Trafford to Trafford Firswood to Altrincham to Chorlton

Coordinates: 53°31′24″N 2°10′16″W / 53.52333°N 2.17111°W / 53.52333; -2.17111