Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of the city centre, it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Reading, Southampton and Bournemouth; regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and York; and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by Network Rail. The station has 14 platforms: 12 terminal and two through platforms (numbers 13 and 14). Piccadilly is also a major interchange with the Metrolink light rail system with two tram platforms in its undercroft.
Piccadilly is the busiest station in the Manchester station group with over 30 million passenger entries and exits between April 2019 and March 2020 (the other major stations in Manchester are Oxford Road and Victoria). As of December 2023, it is the third-busiest station in the United Kingdom outside of London (after Birmingham New Street and Leeds), and is also one of the busiest interchange stations outside London, with over 2 million passengers changing trains annually. The station hosts services from six train operating companies.
The listed train shed roof which is 105 metres (344 ft) wide between platforms 1 and 12, comprises four spans; two of the spans, 185 metres (607 ft) in length, were built over the eastern part of the station during the 1860s while the other two, at the western side measuring 150 metres (490 ft), were constructed in the early 1880s. The roof is supported by masonry walls at the outer edges, which have round-headed windows alongside platforms 1 and 12, and rows of cast iron columns along the platforms in its interior space. The roof spans have an arrangement of wrought iron trusses with supporting cast iron struts on girders, which are evenly spaced between the columns.
Ticket barriers were installed in Autumn 2016 between platforms 3 and 7, following an application by Virgin Trains.
Ticket barriers were fitted on platforms 1-3 by TransPennine Express, Platforms 9-12 remain ungated but for most of the day are staffed with ticket inspectors.
In 2009, the Greater Manchester Integrated Transport Authority advocated reopening the neighbouring derelict Mayfield station to alleviate capacity problems but the proposal was not advanced; plans focused on increasing track capacity on the cross-city route between Piccadilly and Oxford Road stations were pursued.
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We’ll be seeing services by Avanti West Coast, Northern, Transpennine express, East Midlands Railway, Transport for Wales and a possible chance of freight as well.
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I really enjoyed my time that I spent at Manchester Piccadilly especially with the amount of variety I managed to see in the time I spent there especially when I’ve never ever visited Manchester Piccadilly before but it was a great place to come to and a place I wanna revisit at some point as well.
My next station will be Deansgate which is a few stops up the line from here I’ve never been to that station before but I’m sure it’ll be a good place to come to so until then thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next video.
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