Gatley train station

You can reach 64 stations directly from Gatley on a weekday, without changing. The most frequent is Manchester Piccadilly, with 103 trains a day.

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• 64 direct destinations
• 1,031st busiest in Britain
• Staffed part time
• Step-free in part
• 5 bus stops nearby

Direct trains from Gatley

Trains a day to each station you can reach without changing, by day of the week.

and 24 more stations, each served less often.

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Lines serving Gatley

Gatley is on the Styal Line. That page has the whole route, every station on it and how busy each one is.

Freight through Gatley station, hour by hour

Freight is booked through or alongside Gatley station on 277 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 48 paths on the Wednesday, 39 paths on the Saturday and no paths on the Sunday. 37 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 22:00 to 23:00 on the Friday, with 6 paths booked.

The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.

Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless

How busy Gatley station is

373,524 passenger entries and exits in 2024-25, making it the 1,031st busiest station in Great Britain.

More journeys run between Gatley and Manchester Piccadilly than any other pair: 176,194 a year. That is where passengers go, which is not always where the most trains go.

Source: Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage, 2024-25. Estimated from ticket sales.

Sundays

Sunday is a different railway here: 39 stations instead of 64, a drop of about 39%. Saturday runs to 61.

Changing from 14 April 2027

From 14 April 2027, Gatley gains 4 destinations including Kirkham and Wesham, Layton, Blackpool North, Poulton-le-Fylde.

Nearest other stations

• East Didsbury 1.2 miles
• Heald Green 1.7 miles
• Burnage 2.1 miles
• Cheadle Hulme 2.1 miles
• Manchester Airport 2.6 miles

Closed stations nearby

Former stations within 8 km of Gatley, from Wikidata. They are on the map under Closed & former stations.

• Cheadle · 0.6 miles
• Cheadle North · 0.8 miles
• Northenden · 1.0 miles
• Heaton Mersey · 1.5 miles
• Didsbury · 1.8 miles
• Cheadle Heath · 1.8 miles

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Facilities at Gatley station

Gatley is staffed part time, with step-free access to part of the station.

Ticket office: Monday to Friday: 06:20 to 12:50 · Saturday: 07:20 to 13:50 · Sunday: closed

Parking at Gatley station

• Station Car Park
  free

From National Rail's station record, last updated 14 April 2026.

Getting to Gatley station

Gatley station is in Stockport, North West, and is run by Northern Trains.

The nearest motorway junction is M56 J4 (Kingsway Interchange), 0.4 miles north.

5 bus stops are within a short walk, the nearest being Gatley Rail Station.

Sources: Office of Rail and Road (Table 6329), OpenStreetMap and NaPTAN.

Gatley station elsewhere

• National Rail facilities, opening hours and live departures
• Realtime Trains every train calling today, to the minute
• Wikipedia the station's history
• OpenStreetMap the map data this page is built from

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