Cheadle LNW railway station served Cheadle, Cheshire, England, between 1866 and its closure in 1917.
The London and North Western Railway completed its line from Stockport Edgeley to in 1866; the station opened on 1 August.
The station was located 100 yards (90 m) north of Cheadle High Street, on the western side of the road, at the point where the line crossed over Manchester Road. It was reached by steps leading up to it.
Two platforms were provided: the northern platform handled trains from Warrington to Stockport and the southern side for trains heading west to Warrington and Liverpool.
On the opening of the line and the station in 1866, the LNWR immediately commenced operating a passenger train service from Manchester London Road to Cheadle, via Stockport Edgeley; services continued onwards to Northenden, , and .
In December 1895, 20 trains per weekday operated from Manchester via Stockport; seven of these continued on to Broadheath near Altrincham, with two continuing on to Liverpool.
The service was discontinued on 1 January 1917 and the station was closed that day.
Goods trains operated by LNWR, and London Midland and Scottish Railway from 1923, continued to use the line through the station's site from 1917 until 1948. From that date, the trains were operated by British Railways' London Midland Region until 21 August 1967, though it was renamed Cheadle South from 1 July 1950.
The line through Cheadle High Level was singled in the early 1970s to facilitate the construction of the M63 motorway (now the M60). From 1992, Mid-Cheshire line passenger trains were diverted to run via Stockport and therefore through Cheadle High Level to allow the Altrincham line services to be transferred to Manchester Metrolink; however, Cheadle High Level station was not reopened.
Following a campaign by local politicians, CheadleâÂÂs Towns Fund Board submitted an application to Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council for a new station for Cheadle on the same site on the Mid-Cheshire line. The station facilities would be built adjacent to the car park of the Alexandra Hospital.
In 2022, the UK government committed ã9million funding to the project and the station was expected to open in 2025. It will have a single 100m long platform, providing one train per hour along the Mid-Cheshire line between and , via and .
By 2026, the cost of reopening the station had risen to ã14million, and work had not started. The government minister confirmed that the proposed station was held up by operational concerns, specifically that the site sits on a single-track section of the line that feeds into one of the busiest rail corridors in the country, between Stockport and Manchester Piccadilly. The Government's position is that adding a stop at Cheadle would cause knock-on delays across the wider network, and that the only way to accommodate an hourly service here would be to reduce services to other stations on the mid-Cheshire line.