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Piccadilly Station
 Above is a photograph of Manchester Piccadilly Station in 2008 and below is the same station, then known as London Road Station, in 1905. The original station was built in 1842 for the Manchester & Birmingham Railway and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne & Manchester Railway.
1. London Road
Station 2. Mayfield Station
1. London Road Station 2. Mayfield Station 3. Fire Headquarters A lot has changed in the intervening 103 years including the name which was introduced in 1960. Today Piccadilly is one of three main stations in Manchester, handling over 55,000 passengers and 1,000 train movements every day. It is the northern terminus of Virgin’s flagship route to London and offers direct services to other major UK cities, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Cardiff and Norwich. In what was the undercroft of the station there is now a terminus for the Metrolink tram system with routes out into the suburbs and a connection to Manchester's other major station at Hunt's Bank, Victoria Station. |
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Around and beneath the old London Road Station there were extensive facilities for the handling of goods. While the facade of the Goods Office has been preserved on London Road, a major reconstruction on London Road and Fairfield Street has created a new entrance to the station and a new taxi rank. |
  Car park beneath the station approach ramp. |
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Today in addition to Virgin Rail the railway
companies using Piccadilly include: Arriva Trains Wales, CrossCountry,
East Midlands Trains, First TransPennine Express, and Northern Rail.
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Inside Piccadilly is now a fully modern,
state of the art, light and attractive transportation hub to rival any
in the country.
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