Hale railway station serves the area of Hale, south of Altrincham, in Greater Manchester, England; it is also used by people living in the surrounding areas of Bowdon and Hale Barns. It is a stop on the Mid-Cheshire line between , and . The station is located on Ashley Road.
The station was opened as Peel Causeway by the Cheshire Midland Railway (CMR) on 12 May 1862, when the railway opened from Altrincham to . The CMR was amalgamated into the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) on 15 August 1867. The station became Peel Causeway for Hale on 1 January 1899 and it was renamed Hale on 1 January 1902.
The station was served by passenger trains from to and . The CLC remained an independent entity, as a joint London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railway operation after the Grouping of 1923, until the creation of British Railways (BR). The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation on 1 January 1948. When sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was managed by Regional Railways, under arrangement with the Greater Manchester PTE, until the privatisation of British Rail.
The station has a ticket office on platform 1, which is open on weekday mornings. A ticket vending machine is in place for purchase of tickets outside of these hours and for the collection of pre-paid tickets. Digital station information boards are in operation on both platforms, along with station announcements. Car parking is available on either side of the level crossing.
A veterinary surgery now occupies most of the station building on platform 1, while a physiotherapist practice uses the platform 2 building. The west platform building and signal box are Grade II listed; the latter is no longer in use.
Northern Trains operates a generally hourly service in each direction between Chester and Manchester Piccadilly on the Mid-Cheshire line, with two peak extras to/from Stockport. On Sundays, services are two-hourly in each direction.