Stockport

CRS Code	SPT
Collected date	13/09/16

On the West Coast Main Line, Stockport station is to the southeast of Manchester Piccadilly and on several other branches. The line and thus the station is elevated, so there's quite a slope up to the front of the station which was still under construction at the time we visited:

The back/side of the front of the station is less round:

The round front leads into the concourse:

The platforms themselves are accessed via lifts or steps from ground level. This is at platform level looking down to the concourse:

On the wall in the concourse is this plaque remembering the life of railwayman Wilf Wood who was awarded the VC for an act of bravery in the First World War:

On the wall at platform level is this plaque marking the 150th anniversary of the Stockport, Disley, and Whaley Bridge Railway on 9th June 2007:

The entrance from the station concourse to platform 0:

On platform 0, looking north:

Beyond the canopied part of platform 0, looking north and across at platform 1:

At the northern end of platform 0 is the first of Stockport's two signalboxes:

Looking back south down platform 0:

A subway (actually at ground level) connects all the platforms. This is the exit from the subway to platforms 1 and 2:

Platform 1 seen from platform 0 opposite. The boards between the tracks mark where the subway passes beneath the line, and the exit steps from the subway can be seen just to the left of the blue wooden building:

Further south along platform 1 is the main brick building:

On platform 1 looking north:

At the northern end of the canopy on platforms 1 and 2, there's a mysterious slot:

Perhaps the mysterious canopy slot is where was once a bay platform? It now features an area of artificial grass:

On platform 2, looking south at the wooden blue Smith's:

Under the canopy on platform 2, looking north towards Smith's:

Looking south along the line from the end of platforms 1 and 2:

At the southern end of platforms 1 and 2 looking north:

And this end of the canopy also features a mysterious slot:

Under some more tracks to get to platforms 3 and 4:

On platform 3, looking down the steps:

A long view of platform 3 from platform 2 opposite:

Under the canopy on platform 3 looking south, with platform 2 on the left:

At the northern end of the platform 3/4 island is the bay platform 3a. Looking north from the buffers:

Looking south along platform 3a back towards the buffers and station buildings:

On the other side of the platform 3/4 island is platform 4, here looking north:

Looking south from the same point, we can see the subway under the tracks on the right and the entrance to the steps just beyond the wooden building on the left:

The building on platform 4, with the steps to the subway on the left:

Towards the southern end of platform 4 things get a bit more basic. There's some shrubbery on the left that's an infilled bay, and this brick-and-pole shelter:

Opposite the southern end of platform 4 is Stockport number 2 signalbox:

Under the tracks again and we reach a western entrance to the station:

One final plaque (though I'm sadly not sure exactly where) is a memorial to a Stockport railwayman, Jim Renshaw:

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