Hi

just wondering if anyone knows the train stations in manchester? what are they? what areas of manchester surround them?

the reason is I'm looking at accomadation for my year in industry for my Uni course, I need somewhere near a train station so I can get to Wilmslow, Cheshire... but I don't know where the station's are in manchester... tried looking on multimap but cant find them all, I know there has to be quite a few cus manchester is pretty damn big!

I think the 2 stations are called Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Victoria.. Sorry I don't know their location/postal codes!

I would have thought there was more than 2 stations? I knew about Manchester Picadilly cus I've been through that one before...

I've found Victoria... M8 is the postal area, near Salford... cant find Picadilly yet... will keep looking, thanks

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found Piccadilly now too... it comes under M1, bang in the town centre...

ok thats helpful :) so are there any more stations peeps?

had a quick look on the trainline.com station search..


manchester airport
manchester oxford road
manchester piccadilly
manchester victoria

seems theres just the four....and the airport one will be way out of town.

just 2 that i'm aware of.
There will be lots of local stops though on all the lines heading out.
Work out where you want to live, then try to locate the local station.

Originally posted by LoopyLou
had a quick look on the trainline.com station search..


manchester airport
manchester oxford road
manchester piccadilly
manchester victoria

seems theres just the four....and the airport one will be way out of town.

ermm, that just means that there are only 4 with the word manchester in the name.

or check this out....

full list of manchester stations etc. (http://www.totaltravel.co.uk/travel/north-west-england/merseyside-manchester/guide/stations-manchester)

There's this line

Manchester Piccadilly
Mauldeth Road
Burnage
East Didsbury
Gatley
Heald Green
Manchester Airport
Wilmslow
Alderley Edge
Holmes Chapel
Sandbach
Crewe

...and this line

Alderley Edge
Wilmslow
Handforth
Cheadle Hulme
Stockport
Heaton Chapel
Levenshulme
Manchester Piccadilly

Hope it helps.

Originally posted by LoopyLou

seems theres just the four....and the airport one will be way out of town.

The airport neighbours Wilmslow.

If you're looking for accomodation, a lot of places in the South of Manchester are quite expensive.

Originally posted by samscam
The airport neighbours Wilmslow.

wilmslow is where my work is, but wilmslow is WAY too expensive to live in, there is no student accomadation or anything, no house sharing... just 1 bedroom apartments at stupid prices!

looks like I need to be near Piccadilly then if those are the only train lines into Wilmslow...

Just come across this from Manchester Metropolitan University (http://www.mmu.ac.uk/accommodation/poh/index.php).

Would it be worth contacting them?

http://www.mmu.ac.uk/accommodation/contacts/index.php

Perhaps they'll be able to give you some contacts for private shared housing if you explain your situation.

Loads of house share and student places in Didsbury (though the prices are going up!) I would recommend you living there plus your can get a direct train to wilmslow or into Manchester (plus tons of buses into Manc centre about 10/15 mins for nights out and it's pretty safe)

Didsbury is a good night out there is tons of pubs and places to eat a bit like sheffields eccy road!

Levenshulme is cheaper but not as nice.

Originally posted by Evei
Loads of house share and student places in Didsbury (though the prices are going up!) I would recommend you living there plus your can get a direct train to wilmslow or into Manchester (plus tons of buses into Manc centre about 10/15 mins for nights out and it's pretty safe)

Didsbury is a good night out there is tons of pubs and places to eat a bit like sheffields eccy road!

Levenshulme is cheaper but not as nice.

Would definitely agree with this.

These people have a house share section (but don't seem to have alot at the mo).

http://www.manchesterlettings.com/

could try this link

www.spareroom.co.uk

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/homesearch/search/rent/search_results.jsp?thisFilename=catcherror.jsp&resultsFilename=search_results.jsp&listLocationsFilename=listlocations.jsp&firstRow=1&numberOfRows=10&maxRecReturn=0&location=didsbury&rentalFrequency=M&minPrice=100&maxPrice=300&type=&bedrooms=%23%3E%3D1

Originally posted by Evei
Loads of house share and student places in Didsbury (though the prices are going up!) I would recommend you living there plus your can get a direct train to wilmslow or into Manchester (plus tons of buses into Manc centre about 10/15 mins for nights out and it's pretty safe)

Didsbury is a good night out there is tons of pubs and places to eat a bit like sheffields eccy road!

Levenshulme is cheaper but not as nice.

I would second Evei's posting.

When I was a student in Manchester, most students not in uni accommodation lived in South Manchester, and the places of choice were Didsbury and Fallowfield. I lived in a shared house in Stockport - it's not a particularly great place, but it was ok for a year. Would be convenient for Wilmslow, I think, and also convenient for getting into central Manchester. (Buses straight there, also trains).

StarSparkle :)

Have you tried a route planner to work out whether you could get from Wilmslow to Cheshire by train, bus or whatever. I use www.nationalrail.co.uk for journey and train times, it's pretty detailed, so you could find out which sort of area of manchester you need to live in, there's also a station at Salford Cres which is directly opposite Salford uni if thats any help?

Originally posted by xafier
wilmslow is where my work is, but wilmslow is WAY too expensive to live in, there is no student accomadation or anything, no house sharing... just 1 bedroom apartments at stupid prices!

looks like I need to be near Piccadilly then if those are the only train lines into Wilmslow...

well I used to live in withington and get the bus up to Oxford Road station (when I as commuting to Sheffield every day) and this was ok, but the bus can take up to 30 minutes if the traffic is bad - also depends when you leave. Its a lot faster at around 7 am than 8 am for example. Rusholme is near Oxford Road station (about 1 mile) and a lot of people seem to live around there nowadays so you could try there...

theres tonnes of trains from Oxford Road to Picadilly if you need to go there, or the bus goes all the way to picadilly gardens and then its 5- 10 minutes walk to picadilly station.

Chorlton-cum-Hardy is by far the best place to live in the Manchester area (the M21 postcode basically). So go and live there and figure the transport options around that would be my advice. Loads to do, good restaurants, specialist shops, trendy bars, proper pubs, nice parks etc etc...
http://www.chorlton.co.uk/
Chorlton Green is the most sought after bit to live in, but it's all good. Plenty of houseshare/rental options and cheaper than Didsbury (and better!). Lots of studenty types young and old.

You can get a bus to E Didsbury station (10 mins or so) then to Wilmslow from there, or 15 mins by bus to Oxford Rd station in town. There's also Stretford, Old Trafford or Trafford Bar Metrolink stations which are all only 1 mile from Chorlton (and then 15 mins ride to Piccadilly stn).

For Mcr travel info see:
http://www.gmpte.com/