Deansgate Railway Station
Deansgate is a railway station in Manchester city centre, England. It is situated approximately 1,100 yards (1 km) west of Manchester Piccadilly in the Castlefield area, at the junction of Deansgate and Whitworth Street West.
It is linked to Deansgate-Castlefield Metrolink station and the Manchester Central Complex (both previously called G-Mex) by a footbridge built in 1985, while Deansgate Locks, the Great Northern Warehouse and the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester are nearby.
The platforms are elevated, reached by lift or stairs, or by the walkway from the Manchester Central Complex. The ticket office, staffed full time, is between street and platform levels. There are no ticket barriers, although manual ticket checks take place on a daily basis.
It is on the Manchester to Preston and the Liverpool to Manchester lines, both heavily used by commuters. Most tickets purchased by passengers to Deansgate are issued to Manchester Stations or Manchester Central Zone, therefore actual usage is not reflected in these statistics, due to the difficulty in splitting the ticket sales correctly between the four grouped stations (Piccadilly,Victoria,Oxford Road and Deansgate).
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