Western Lines (North)

Section of Line	Opened	Closed	Notes
Travis Street to Heaton Norris	04.07.1840
Store St. (Piccadilly) to Travis Street	08.05.1842
Heaton Norris to Sandbach	10.05.1842
Sandbach to Crewe	10.08.1842
London Rd. No. 1 to Mayfield	08.08.1910

	Junctions and other features	Running Lines		Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
	Junctions and other features	Up	Down	Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
Maximum permissible speed 75 m.p.h. on Main, Fast and Slow lines. Maximum permissible speed 45 m.p.h. on Good lines.
1		–	↓	Crewe North Junction	–
		↑	↓↓	Sydney Bridge Junction	0m 1025yds
2		↑↑	↓↕	Sandbach Station (Map)	3m 1574yds
		↕		Holmes Chapel Station (Map)	3m 1225yds
			↓*	Goostry Station (Map)	1m 1603yds
		*↑		Chelford Station (Map)	3m 1458yds	DGL UGL
				Alderley Edge Station (Map)	3m 92yds	DGL 50 UGL 50
3		↑	↓	Wilmslow Station (Map)	1m 980yds	DGL 75
				Handforth Station (Map)	1m 947yds
				Cheadle (1st)			c. 24.11.1845
4		↑	↓	Cheadle Hulme Station (2nd) (Map)	2m 673yds		o. 24.11.1845
5		↑	↓↓↓	Adswood Road Bridge	0m 1412yds
6		↑↑	↓↓↕	Adswood Sidings (Signals down goods, down through siding and up and down through siding only)	0m 788yds
7		↑↑	↓↓↓	Edgeley Junction No.1	0m 819yds
8		↑↑	↓↓	Edgeley Junction No.2	0m 383yds
9		↑↑↑	↓↓↓↓	Stockport Edgeley No.1 (Map)	0m 421yds		o. 15.02.1843
10		↑↑↑↑	↓↓	Stockport Edgeley No.2	0m 332yds
				Heaton Norris Station (Map)			c. 02.03.1959
11		↑↑	↓↓	Heaton Norris Junction	0m 1190yds
				Heaton Chapel and Heaton Moor Station (Map)	0m 1391yds
				Levenshulme North Station (Pic) (Map)	1m 824yds
				Slade Lane Junction	0m 932yds
				Rushford Station			c.00.04.1843
				Longsight Station			o. 00.04.1843 c. 15.09.1958
		↑↑	↓↓↕	Longsight No.1 ¹(Signals up and down goods line only) (Map)	0m 1105yds
				Ardwick Station			c. 15.12.1902 Down ticket platform only.
12		↑↑↑	↓↓↓	Ardwick Junction ²	0m 1629yds
				Travis Street			c. 08.05.1842
13		↑↑	↓↓↓	Manchester London Rd. No.1	0m 541yds		Mayfield c. 28.08.1960
14	³	↑↑	↓↓↓	Manchester London Rd. No.2	0m 415yds
15		↑	–	Manchester London Rd No.3 (Map)	0m 179yds

1. Although Longsight No.1 is shown as signalling the up and down goods line, it is not shown as a block post. It could perhaps be better termed as a Shunting Frame.

2. The exact signalling arrangements at this particular moment in time are not easy to understand from the Sectional Appendix. Although the four signal boxes between Ardwick and the buffers at London Rd are still shown, the route between Ardwick Jn (Exc) to Heaton Norris had already come under the control of the then new London Road Power Box. It appears that the more complicated station area was commissioned at a later date. So although it isn’t shown, it’s there somewhere and should make the signal box tally 16.

3. During re-signalling and other work, the route between Manchester London Rd. No.2 and Oxford Road was closed. For ease of use, this link will lead directly to the Manchester (Oxford Road) to Altrincham page.

Photographs

You could pass this location a thousand times and not notice the significance of this building jutting out from the viaduct that carries the Manchester to Crewe line at Ardwick Junction. It is in fact the base of Ardwick Junction signal box, a structure that once controlled the Crewe line and the connections to the Great Central and the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.

Crewe North Junction to Manchester London Road No.3

Photographs