Denton railway station
in Denton, United KingdomCategory: Attraction
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Malbern Industrial Estate, Holland St, Denton, Manchester M34 3WE, UK Print route »
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Denton railway station is a station in Denton, Greater Manchester, on the Stockport–Stalybridge line, has two trains a week (one train in each direction), and is christened the "Denton Flyer".
With 30 passenger entries and exits between April 2011 and March 2012, Denton was the third-least used station in Great Britain. By 2015–16 the estimate of station usage had changed little, with 37 passenger journeys recorded for an entire year on the weekly train to Stalybridge. The next station along the line at Reddish South had just 18 recorded passenger journeys during this same year and both stations are in the top six least-used railway stations in the United Kingdom.
The orientation of the line running south-west to north-east is a clue to the origin of Denton Station: it stands on the former mainline of the London & North Western Railway between Crewe and Leeds via Stockport. The London & North Western Railway had already completed its line to Manchester via Stockport and now looked to expand to reach the woollen districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire, building its magnificent quadruple tracks all the way to Huddersfield and Leeds via the Standedge tunnel. It is documented in the railway books of several respected authors.
