page_title: East Didsbury railway station
section_title: Other Didsbury stations
hierarchical_section_title: East Didsbury railway station / Other Didsbury stations
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of transport in Didsbury, Manchester, UK, showing Metrolink, National Rail and former British Rail and Manchester Corporation Tramways routes This map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors. Don't rely solely on it for navigation.
context_page_description: East Didsbury is a suburban railway station in south Manchester, England.
  On the Styal Line between Longsight and Wilmslow, it is served by Liverpool Lime Street-Manchester Airport & Crewe trains operated by Northern Trains, Llandudno - Manchester Airport services operated by Transport for Wales Rail and some peak Manchester Airport services operated by TransPennine Express.
  East Didsbury tram stop is close to the railway station.
context_section_description: Before the Beeching Axe of the 1960s, the Didsbury area was served by three railway stations: East Didsbury, Didsbury, and Withington and West Didsbury.
  Didsbury railway station opened in 1880 in the centre of Didsbury Village on the Midland Railway's Manchester South District Line, which connected with the Cheshire Lines Committee line into Manchester Central.  This connected to the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee line from Chinley and the Midland Railway used it for its express services from London St. Pancras. It closed in 1967 and, though the building was used for a while by a hardware dealer, it has now disappeared, apart from the platforms, a clock tower and a drinking fountain dedicated to the memory of a local philanthropist, Dr. D.J. Wilson Rhodes (1847–1900).
  There was also Withington and West Didsbury, the next station on the line towards Manchester; the two being so similar in appearance that passengers sometimes alighted at the wrong one. Originally it was called "Withington", then from 1884 "Withington and Albert Park", receiving its final name in 1915. All that remains is a boundary wall; a block of flats (Brankgate Court) has been built on the site.
  The former Midland line was partially re-opened to passengers in 2013 when it was converted into a light rail track for the Manchester Metrolink tram system.
caption: Map of Didsbury's railways past and present
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