Levenshulme railway station is in
Levenshulme
Levenshulme () is an area of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England, bordering Fallowfield, Longsight, Gorton, Burnage, Heaton Chapel and Reddish, halfway between Stockport and Manchester city centre on the A6 road (England), A6. Levenshulm ...
, Manchester, England. The station is south east of
Manchester Piccadilly
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towards
Stockport
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.
Four tracks go through the station, with the centre tracks used by fast trains and the outer by stopping trains.
Services
As of December 2022, there are four trains per hour from Levenshulme in each direction during off-peak weekday hours and all day Saturdays. All northbound services run to . Southbound, 1 train per hour runs to each of , , and .
On Sundays, the service is reduced to 1 train per hour between and .
Signage
As well as English, the platform signs give the station name in
Irish and
Urdu
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, reflecting the immigrant communities from
Ireland
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and
Pakistan
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which live in the area.
Railway Codes
18 June 2019
References
Further reading
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External links
Voices - Friends of Levenshulme station BBC Where I Live Manchester website
Railway stations in Manchester
DfT Category E stations
Former London and North Western Railway stations
Railway stations served by Northern
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