Future of Altrincham Station - Reprieve of a kind
Lord Stamford returns to take up residence in Dunham Hall
Following the work completed on Altrincham Station earlier this year GMPTE has started a consultation exercise on the redevelopment of Altrincham Interchange proposing wholesale redevelopment of the railway station.
It is most essential that users and others with concern make their views known in writing.
We have made the consultation document available for download. [click here]
There is a deadline for response to Trafford Council of 9th November and probably about the end of November for GMPTE.
Letters to Trafford Council should be addressed to the Head of Altrincham Area Services at Trafford Town Hall and to GMPTE at GMPTE (R&I), FREEPOST RRHE-RKUU-KSJY, 2 Piccadilly Place, Manchester M1 3BG.
In both cases individual copy letters should be sent to to Altrincham councillors.
Altrincham Railway Station
When the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway opened in 1849 the town of Altrincham was served by two Stations; Altrincham which was alongside the Stockport Road level crossing (near the current Old Mill public house) and Bowdon which occupied the site of the current health club on Lloyd Street.
These two stations; were replaced by the current station buildings in 1881 to provide additional capacity at a more central location. As a result until 1971 the station carried the name "Altrincham and Bowdon".
A description of the Altrincham station building has been provided by the Victorian Society:
"The Main building [on platform 1] is a long single-storey range in red-orange brick with stone dressings. A central block with a high-hipped roof contains the booking hall and this is linked by symmetrical wings to pavilions at each end. The building is given character by the use of coloured bricks in the voussoirs of the window and door arches. The extensive platform awnings are glazed and are supported by cast iron columns and arched brackets. The effect is elegant and pleasing..."
"The method of supporting the platform awnings and the use of coloured brick at Altrincham may also be seen in the brickwork and roof of the main shed at London Road [Piccadilly] station, and one may therefore conclude that the LNWR architect's office was responsible for the design of Altrincham."