Ashley railway station

Ashley railway station is in the village of Ashley in Cheshire, England. It is located on the Mid-Cheshire Line 17 3⁄4 miles southwest of Manchester Piccadilly.

The station was opened as by the Cheshire Midland Railway on 12 May 1862 when the railway opened from Altrincham to Knutsford. The CMR was amalgamated into the Cheshire Lines Committee on 15 August 1867. The station was served by passenger trains from Manchester Central to Northwich and Chester Northgate. 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 . 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 served by Regional Railways under arrangement with the Greater Manchester PTE until the Privatisation of British Railways.

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