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General information | |||||
Location | Manchester city centre, City of Manchester England | ||||
Coordinates | 53°28′27″N 2°15′03″W / 53.4742°N 2.2508°W | ||||
Grid reference | SJ834975 | ||||
Managed by | Northern Trains | ||||
Transit authority | Greater Manchester | ||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | DGT | ||||
Classification | DfT category D | ||||
History | |||||
Original company | Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway | ||||
Pre-grouping | Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway | ||||
Post-grouping | Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway London Midland Region of British Railways | ||||
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20 July 1849 | Opened as Knot Mill and Deansgate | ||||
? | Renamed Knott Mill and Deansgate | ||||
3 May 1971 | Renamed Deansgate | ||||
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Deansgate is a railway station in Manchester city centre, England, 1,100 yards (1 km) west of Manchester Piccadilly, close to Castlefield at the junction of Deansgate and Whitworth Street West. It is part of the Manchester station group.
It is linked to Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop and the Manchester Central Convention Complex by a footbridge built in 1985; Deansgate Locks, The Great Northern Warehouse and the Science and Industry Museum are also 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–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).