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Railway station in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester

Cheadle Hulme railway station is a station in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester, England. It is operated by Northern Trains. Cheadle Hulme's first railway station opened in 1842, when the Manchester and Birmingham Railway to Crewe was completed. With the extension of the line to Macclesfield, and later Stoke on Trent, a new station opened in 1845 which has served the area since.

In 1833 Parliament approved the Grand Junction Railway, a railway line to connect Manchester and Birmingham. It opened in 1837, after proposals had been made for more direct routes in 1830 and 1835. The earlier schemes attracted little interest, but two proposals were put forward in late 1835. The two companies, based in Manchester and Birmingham, had to negotiate with each other to develop the proposals, and they were altered somewhat over the next two years. In 1837 Parliament approved the final plans for lines to Crewe and Stoke. The companies merged to become the Manchester and Birmingham Railway company, and the first part of the line opened in June 1840. It originally ran from a temporary station at Travis Street in Manchester, to a station in Heaton Norris just north of Stockport. A large viaduct was built over the River Mersey, and opened to trains on 10 May 1842. It allowed services to be extended to Sandbach; in the following August they reached Crewe. Also at this time, a new station opened to serve as the line's northern terminus; it later became Manchester Piccadilly. Edgeley railway station opened in February 1843 in response to complaints that the Heaton Norris station was "too inconvenient", and it soon became Stockport's busiest station. Three years later in 1846 the Manchester and Birmingham Railway company merged with two other companies to become the London and North Western Railway.

The original Cheadle Hulme railway station on the Crewe line, about 0.3 mile (0 km) south west of the current structure, was known simply as "Cheadle". It was in use from May 1842, following the opening of the viaduct. The station building, opposite the Hesketh Tavern public house, is now a private residence. It included a structure from which tickets were sold, and in the window of which a candle was lit to act as a signal during the hours of darkness. This structure, however, no longer exists. When plans were made for a line to Stoke on Trent, it was originally intended for a branch to be built from Stockport to Macclesfield. Instead, the junction was built south at Cheadle Hulme. The line was constructed over four years: it opened for goods traffic as far as Poynton in June 1845, and on 24 November it reached Macclesfield and was opened to the public. In June 1846 Parliament authorised the completion of the line to Stoke on Trent. By June 1849 the section between Congleton and Macclesfield was completed and the line was finished.

After the Stoke line opened, the station was rebuilt north east at the junction so it could serve both lines. The new station opened on 9 June 1845; at first, southbound services ran to Crewe and Poynton. By November the line had been extended to Macclesfield, and by 1849, when the original station closed, it had reached Stoke on Trent. The new station had four platforms, and was served by trains running between Manchester and Crewe or Stoke on Trent. It was renamed Cheadle Hulme in 1866, to avoid confusion with Cheadle LNW railway station which opened the same year. Before the arrival of the railway, Cheadle Hulme was a rural and agricultural cluster of hamlets. The railway brought a huge influx of people to the area, and provided opportunities for residents to work in places such as Manchester. Cheadle Hulme gradually grew to become a large suburb of over 29,000 people thanks to the railway. Three people, including two children, were killed and 27 were injured. The bridge, which carried the line between Macclesfield and Stoke, was in the process of being reconstructed. Passing trains were restricted to a temporary speed limit of A hearing determined that the train's excessive speed had caused the derailment because the train driver was not aware of the speed restriction. In July 1969, there was another derailment near Cheadle Hulme involving a freight diesel locomotive. It injured no one but blocked services to Crewe and Stoke on Trent for several hours.

The original station was sited above road level (as it is today). Passengers accessed the other two platforms by a footbridge, which was removed after the lines were electrified. The goods yard is now a car park. Work on the second bridge commenced on 8 June 1965, increasing the height and width in accordance with Ministry of Transport requirements. Around this time, the station itself was upgraded: the platforms were demolished and replaced, and new waiting shelters were erected. A new booking office, facing Station Road and approached by a flight of stairs, was built alongside a new booking lobby, toilets and staff accommodation. New entrances to the platforms were built, and the entire station was installed with electric lighting. Station Road was significantly widened and rerouted slightly in 1967 in a further attempt to accommodate increasing traffic. As part of the privatisation of British Rail, all stations in the United Kingdom were sold to Railtrack, and each would be managed by a franchised train operating company. In Cheadle Hulme's case, this was First North Western. In 1996, Railtrack launched a £1 billion programme to restore and renovate every station it operated. Cheadle Hulme had £1.2 million spent on repairs to its platforms, buildings and waiting shelters, and new lighting installed throughout the station. Stephen Day, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cheadle Hulme, opened the updated station in March 1998. The junction itself was revamped in 2000 and the signal box was removed, having been superseded by a central signalling point at Stockport station. In addition, the PA equipment installed in 2011 was finally brought into use to provide automated announcements across the station.

Northern Trains provides all passenger services calling here. Three trains per hour run northeastwards to In the other direction, there is an hourly service to calling at all stations except One train per hour runs to calling at and , and one train per hour continues to Crewe calling at all stations. Sundays sees an hourly to service each way and six trains to and from .