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| General information | |||||
| Location | Denton, Tameside England | ||||
| Coordinates | 53°27′27″N 2°07′50″W / 53.4575°N 2.1306°W | ||||
| Grid reference | SJ914956 | ||||
| Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
| Transit authority | Transport for Greater Manchester | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | DTN | ||||
| Classification | DfT category F2 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1882 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2019/20 |  92 | ||||
| 2020/21 |  12 | ||||
| 2021/22 | 50 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 34 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 54 | ||||
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Denton railway station serves the town of Denton in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, on the Stockport–Stalybridge line. It is served by two trains a week, one in each direction on Saturday mornings.
The orientation of the line, running south-west to north-east, is a clue to its origin; it stands on the former mainline of the London & North Western Railway between Crewe and Leeds via Stockport. The London & North Western Railway had already completed its line to Manchester via Stockport and now looked to expand to reach the woollen districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire, building quadruple tracks all the way to Huddersfield and Leeds via the Standedge tunnel.[1]
- ^ Casson, Mark (2009). The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 123. ISBN 9780199213979.