Godley railway station
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Godley railway station serves the Godley area of Hyde
Hyde, Greater Manchester
Hyde is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. As of the 2001 census, the town had a population of 31,253. Historically part of Cheshire, it is northeast of Stockport, west of Glossop and east of Manchester....

, Tameside
Tameside
The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after the River Tame which flows through the borough and spans the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge. Its western...

, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...

. It is 14 km (8½ miles) east of Manchester Piccadilly on the Manchester-Glossop Line.
It was built to replace the original Godley Junction
Godley East railway station
Godley East was a railway station in the Godley area of Hyde, Tameside, Greater Manchester, on the Manchester-Glossop Line.Godley was the temporary terminus of the route to Sheffield when the first section of the Woodhead Line was opened in 1841, but the original station was located about ¼ mile...

 station, although is geographically challenged, as it is technically placed above a bridge, hence the narrow platforms.

Services

There is generally a half-hourly daily service from Godley to Manchester Piccadilly and Glossop
Glossop railway station
Glossop railway station serves the town of Glossop in Derbyshire, England and is the third busiest railway station in the county of Derbyshire after Derby and Chesterfield, with an estimated 700,000 people using the station in 2009/10....

/Hadfield
Hadfield railway station
Hadfield railway station serves the village of Hadfield in Derbyshire, England. The station is one of the twin termini at the Derbyshire end of the Manchester-Glossop Line, the other being Glossop. It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1844.The line formerly...

. Hourly evenings and Sundays.

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