Heaton Chapel Railway Station is on the Manchester to Stockport Line with onward services to Buxton, Alderley Edge, Chester and Crewe.
The 1851 Station benefits from four trains an hour to either Manchester or to Stockport, and straddles the leafy Heaton Chapel and Heaton Moor border. These historic villages nearby are bustling with separate shopping areas, with many restaurants and pubs which are particularly busy in the evenings and weekends.
Heaton Chapel Station gives easy access to Heaton Moor village shops nearby, which has a wide selection of pubs, bars and excellent restaurants such as Casa de Moor which serves food 7 days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner with classic Mediterranean dishes. Other nearby acclaimed restaurants are Moorish for Turkish cuisine and Heatons Tandoori for Indian cuisine.
Some nearby pubs are :
- Elizabethan Heaton Moor – 0.2 mile 5 mins walk Heaton Moor Road
- Moor Club Heaton Moor – 0.2 mile 5 mins walk Heaton Moor Road
- Plough pub Heaton Moor – 0.2 mile 5 mins walk Heaton Moor Road
- Crown pub Heaton Moor – 0.2 mile 5 mins walk Heaton Moor Road
- George and Dragon Heaton Chapel – 0.3 mile 6 mins walk Manchester Road
- Moor Top pub – 0.6 mile 15 minutes Heaton Moor Road.
There are also several bars.
The area has its own cinema, the boutique luxury Savoy Cinema which originally opened in 1923, and it was fully refurbished in autumn 2015.
The station has a very active friends group, the Friends of Heaton Chapel Station (FofHCS) which was formed in 2012, has won numerous awards for various art projects, including the ‘Running Man’ on the Manchester bound platform and the Trompe d’oeil installations on both the station stairs. Pictures of twenty famous Four Heatons residents, past and present, are displayed on the stairs to platform 1.
FofHCS has 132 paid members which is the largest Friends group in the whole of Northern Trains, which manages 479 stations.
A large 1851 station clock (a copy) was installed over the stairs from the booking office down to platform 1.
Queen Elizabeth II visited our station via her Royal Train with Prince Philip on 14th November 2013, and a year later FofHCS had a memorial maroon plaque on the front of the station unveiled by Alex Hynes, M.D. Of Northern.
The station bicycle storage facilities are now only cycle shelters on each platform.