Manchester link may de-rail controversial station closure

[Excerpt from Stockport Express article, 10/1/06]
REDDISH MP Andrew Gwynne has welcomed support from Stockport Council for a Stockport to Manchester Victoria train service which will use the threatened Reddish South Station.

[Click here for the full article.]

Station closure bid hits barrier

See the following Metro News article, for yet another report on the proposed closure of South Reddish Station: Station closure bid hits barrier.

{With all these reports (not necessarily saying anything new) I think the station deserves it's own label, so readers can pull together all the reports.)

The Council's 'pledge' becomes an SOS

You Wait Ages For One...
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Having pledged to keep South Reddish Station open [Council Pledges To Fight To Save South Reddish Station, 20/12/06], the Council's latest press release is entitled: Stockport Sends Out An SOS.

See also the Stockport Express report: United front for Reddish railway battle.

Council Pledges To Fight To Save South Reddish Station

South Reddish Station or
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Photo by Eifion.

[Council press release, 20/12/06]
Stockport Council pledged to save South Reddish Station from closure last night, as a Notice of Motion against Network Rail’s proposal was approved at the full Council meeting.

[Click here to see the full press release.

For a long time there has only been one passenger train a week, in one direction. It departs Stockport at 11:23 Saturday morning, passing through South Reddish (stopping on request only) at 11:27. It then calls at Denton, Guide Bridge before arriving at Stalybridge 11:44.

It keeps this line classified as a passenger line, not just freight, and reduces the tax to be paid by Network Rail, justifying the expense of the service.]