page_title: Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway
section_title: Route and stations
hierarchical_section_title: Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway / Route and stations
caption_attribution_description: Pre Grouping railway junction around Altrincham, Broadheath &amp; Timperley; Apethorne, Bredbury, Brinnington, Godley, Marple &amp; Woodley
context_page_description: The Stockport, Timperley and Altrincham Junction Railway was authorised by an Act of Parliament, passed on 22 July 1861 to build a 8 miles 17 chains railway from Stockport Portwood to Altrincham.
context_section_description: The railway started at an end-on connection to the western terminus of the Stockport and Woodley Junction Railway (S&WJR) at Stockport Portwood station.
  It ran to three places:
  to connect with the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) at Broadheath Junction, and
  to connect with the Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway (MSJ&AR) at both Timperley Junction and at Altrincham Deansgate Junction.
  
  All three destinations are in the vicinity of Altrincham.
  Initial intermediate stations were at:
  Stockport Teviot Dale renamed later to Stockport Tiviot Dale.
  Cheadle.
  Northenden, and
  Baguley.
  Goods facilities were provided at all the stations and in addition there were two goods depots at Stockport, Georges Road and Wellington Road, one each side of the main line. They both opened around 1866, their proximity led to them being considered as one facility, they were treated as the same in the Handbook of Railway Stations. Wellington Road had a 10 ton capacity crane.
  The Act authorised working arrangements between the railway and its two neighbours, the Stockport and Woodley Junction Railway and the Cheshire Midland Railway, the ST&AJR was granted running powers over the MSJ&AR and the LNWR was granted running powers between its two sections of railway at Northenden and Broadheath Junctions.
  The ST&AJR served as a very useful avoiding line to the south of Manchester and carried a very heavy freight traffic which funnelled in from several routes from the East Midlands and Yorkshire to south Lancashire and Cheshire.  This required hard working of the steam locomotives by their crews to clear the bottleneck stretch of line for the following trains.
caption: Western terminal Junction at Altrincham
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