Denton railway station
Denton 
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| Location | |
| Place | Denton |
| Local authority | Tameside |
| Coordinates | 53°27′27″N 2°07′50″W / 53.4575°N 2.1306°WCoordinates: 53°27′27″N 2°07′50″W / 53.4575°N 2.1306°W |
| Grid reference | SJ914956 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | DTN |
| 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 |
 30 |
| 2012/13 |
 194 |
| 2013/14 |
110 |
| 2014/15 |
120 |
| 2015/16 |
74 |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Transport for Greater Manchester |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1882 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Denton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Denton railway station is a station in Denton, Greater Manchester, on the -Stalybridge line, famous for having one train a week in one direction only (currently calling on Friday mornings at 9:32am), christened the "Denton Flyer". With 30 passenger entries and exits between April 2011 and March 2012, Denton was the third-least used station in Great Britain. By 2015-16 the estimate of station usage has little changed with 37 passenger journeys recorded for an entire year on the once weekly train to Stalybridge. The next station along the line at Reddish South had just 18 recorded passenger journeys during this same year and both stations are in the top six least used railway stations in the United Kingdom.
The orientation of the line running south-west to north-east is a clue to the origin of Denton Station that stands on the former main line of the London & North Western Railway between Crewe and Leeds via Stockport. The London & North Western Railway had already completed its line to Manchester via Stockport and now looked to expand to reach the woollen districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire building its magnificent quadruple tracks all the way to Huddersfield and Leeds via the Standedge tunnel. It is documented in the railway books of several respected authors
On the platform, as of 2007, only one or two signs remain that bear the station name to the public. The Network/National Rail website (as of 2011), in its "Station Plan" shows a bench as the sole passenger facility at the station. There is no working lighting.
North of here at Denton Junction the line divides, with the main passenger line to Guide Bridge and the now little used branch to Ashton Moss. This latter route is normally used only by freight and empty stock transfer workings but is used also for diversions if the main line between Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly is closed for engineering work.
A further line to Droylsden diverged from this (34 chains (680 m) further on at Ashton Moss Junction), which at one time was used by direct trains from the East Lancashire Line to London Euston. That line was closed in 1969 and subsequently lifted.
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