Prestbury railway station
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Prestbury railway station, is an unstaffed station which serves the village of Prestbury, Cheshire
Prestbury, Cheshire
Prestbury is a village, civil parish and ecclesiastical parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Prestbury is a long, narrow parish covering 1,165 hectares to the west of the Peak Park foothills and to the east of the sandstone ridge which is...

, England
England
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. It was opened on 24 November 1845 by the London & North Western Railway.

From 14 December 2008 trains operate on an hourly pattern, terminating at Stoke on Trent(southbound) or Manchester Piccadilly (northbound). Some early morning/late night services originate/terminate at Macclesfield.

Trains towards Stoke on Trent generally depart Prestbury at xx14 (Monday to Saturday) with an additional evening peak service at 17.44 (Monday to Friday only). The last two services in an evening terminate at Macclesfield.

Trains towards Manchester Piccadilly depart Prestbury at xx24 Mondays to Saturdays, however services before 09.00 are significantly different (Monday to Friday) with departures at 06.26, 06.57, 07.21, 07.44, 08.10 and 08.23. The 08.10 train is the only service not to call at Adlington.

Northbound services towards Manchester Piccadilly generally call at Heaton Chapel and Levenshulme whereas Southbound services do not.

There are three afternoon/evening services in each direction on Sundays.

On average 3 people use every train which stops at Prestbury.

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