Ardwick railway station
Ardwick 
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| Location | |
| Place | Ardwick |
| Local authority | Manchester |
| Coordinates | 53°28′16″N 2°12′47″W / 53.4711°N 2.2131°WCoordinates: 53°28′16″N 2°12′47″W / 53.4711°N 2.2131°W |
| Grid reference | SJ858972 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | ADK |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 584 |
| 2012/13 |
 616 |
| 2013/14 |
568 |
| 2014/15 |
542 |
| 2015/16 |
896 |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Transport for Greater Manchester |
| History | |
| Original company | Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Central Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| November 1842 | Station opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ardwick from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Ardwick railway station in Manchester, England is about one mile (1.5 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly. Situated in an industrial area of east Manchester, it is the least-used railway station in Manchester. Plans to close the station permanently were quashed in 2006 due to increasing activity in the area. The station has just two trains in each direction calling on Monday to Friday only in the 2015-16 timetable.
It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1842 and became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway during mergers in 1847. That company changed its name to the Great Central Railway in 1897. The station became a junction between the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway under the Grouping of 1923, and passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by Regional Railways under arrangement with the Greater Manchester PTE until the privatisation of British Rail.
Ardwick rail depot, opened 2006 for the Class 185 DMU fleet is a short distance to the east.
From 1878 to 1902 there was also an Ardwick stop shown on Crewe–Manchester line timetables for collection of Manchester tickets on down trains.
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