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Heaton Chapel

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Collected date 16/09/16

Heaton Chapel sign

Heaton Chapel was the day's first station so we arrived at the tail end of the morning's commuter rush. It wasn't masively busy but there was still something of a hubbub at this station in a suburb of Stockport. The main station building sits on the platform 2 side of the railway, facing on to Heaton Moor Road:

Heaton Chapel front

A plaque on the front of the station building commemorates a visit by the royal train in 2013:

Heaton Chapel Railway Station opened in 1851 - Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Philip boarded their Royal Train here on the 14th November 2013

The western side of the station building:

Heaton Chapel west side

The station buildins has steps to the platform and there's a ramped entrance from Tatton Road South. Here's its entrance:

Heaton Chapel platform 2 ramp

The ramp leads down under the road bridge past the side of the station building:

Heaton Chapel building side

A long view of platform 2 from platform 1 opposite:

Heaton Chapel platform 2

Down on platform 2 looking north towards the road bridge:

Heaton Chapel platform 2 looking north

Looking south down the platform:

Heaton Chapel platform 2 looking south

A mural of commuters running for a train:

Heaton Chapel mural on platform 2

Over on the other side of the road bridge the entrance to platform 1's building is boarded up:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 entrance

Round the corner we can see that this is the top of a staircase leading down to platform 1:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 entrance side view

But since that entrance is closed passengers have to walk down Egerton Road North to this side entrance:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 side entrance

A ramp leads down from this entrance to platform 1:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 ramp

Looking north along the line from the end of the ramp:

Heaton Chapel looking north

Looking south from the end of platform 1:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 looking south

A view of platform 1 from platform 2:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 seen from platform 2

The shelter on platform 1:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 shelter

The shelter gives directly on to the (out of order) platform 1 steps:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 exit

The building on platform 1 seen from platform 2:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 building

Arches behind the scaffolding on platform 1:

Heaton Chapel platform 1 building arches