The Manchester and Allerton Junction Line
The Manchester and Allerton Junction Line links 16 stations, with a top line speed of 85 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 45 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 16 |
| Top line speed | 85 mph |
| Passengers a year | 6.9 million entries and exits across its stations |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Deansgate1.7 million a year
- Trafford Park44,548 a year
- Humphrey Park30,068 a year
- Urmston371,074 a year
- Chassen Road42,472 a year
- Flixton119,346 a year
- Irlam262,430 a year
- Birchwood437,172 a year
- Padgate118,198 a year
- Warrington Central1.3 million a year
- Warrington West388,970 a year
- Sankey for Penketh1,204 a year
- Widnes428,030 a year
- Hough Green192,584 a year
- Halewood58,030 a year
- Hunts Cross1.4 million a year
The busiest station on the line is Deansgate, 1.7 million entries and exits a year and 325th busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Manchester and Ordsall Lane Junction Branch.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.