Cheadle Hulme
| CRS Code | CHU |
| Collected date | 11/09/16 |
Cheadle Hulme station was our base for the week's holiday in Manchester, so waiting around platform 1 in the morning amongst the later commuters became a familiar experience. The station sits at the point where the West Coast Main Line forks southwards towards Stoke-on-Trent on one branch and Crewe on the other. The station frontage dates from the sixties and sits in the vee formed by the two converging lines:
Looking down at the station front from platform 3:
A view from platform 2:
The station building houses a ticket office, and beyond it is this flight of steps leading up to platform level:
Looking back down the central steps towards the station building:
Separate flights of steps lead up to platforms 2 and 3:
On platform 2 with the stepped exit to the left of the fence:
Walking down to the southern end of the Crewe-bound platform 2, we look south:
Looking north from the southern end of platform 2:
Going up on to the footbridge we get a good view of platforms 1 and 2 looking south:
And looking north:
A general view of platform 1:
On platform 1 looking south:
Looking north:
Steps lead up to platform 1 from street level:
Returning to the island platform 2 and 3, we look north on platform 3 at the footbridge:
Looking south along platform 3:
A view of platform 3 from platform 4 opposite:
Looking south under the footbridge at platforms 3 and 4:
The shelters, both old and new, on platform 3, with the lift entrance to the footbridge between them:
Looking north along the line from the end of platform 3:
Back up to the footbridge for this view of platforms 3 and 4 looking north:
Looking south from the footbridge:
Inside the footbridge, with steps down to platform 4 to our left:
The exit from platform 4. The lift and footbridge give the whole station step-free access, although the lift was out of service the one time we wanted to get our bikes through the station:
A longer view of the rear of platform 4 and the footbridge:
Platform 4 backs on to the car park, where here we look south towards another stepped exit from the station:
Next to the carpark there seems to be traces of old rails in an area which was once part of the goods yard:
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