Notes: Stockport Tiviot Dale was opened by the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) on the 1.12.1865. (The station was originally known as Stockport Teviot Dale.) It was located on the CLC Woodley to Skelton Junction section of what became the Woodley to Glazebrook line.

To the west the line gave access towards Liverpool via the Skelton Junction to Garston line. However this became part of the LNWR who were anything but helpful towards the CLC.

The CLC therefore decided to progress towards building a route of their own from Skelton Junction to Liverpool. This they did and it opened to goods on 1.3.1873. The opening of this route completed the Stockport to Glazebrook line.

Tiviot Dale remained a part of the CLC until 1948 when it became part of the British Railways London Midland Region. In 1964 it lost its local services towards Liverpool Central. It still catered for main line services and local runs to Manchester Central but closed completely on 2.1.1967.

The M60 runs parallel with the line. The line of the railway was retained during the building of the motorway as there were proposals to reopen the line.

The Bredbury to Heaton Mersey section of the Chorlton - Bredbury line (throuigh Tiviot Dale) remained open to freight, mainly to allow trains from the Woodhead line to travel on to Liverpool via Northenden. This section itself was closed in 1982 due to damage caused to a tunnel in Stockport when the M63 (Now M60) was built. The track was lifted in 1986 and Tiviot Dale tunnel is now been partially filled with earth and rubble. There are plans are in hand to build a Metrolink line from Chorlton to Stockport using part of the trackbed.

For pictures of the course of the Chorlton - Bredbury Railway in 2003 see the Closed South Manchester Railways web site

To see the other stations on the Woodley - Glazebrook line click on the station name: Stockport Portwood, Cheadle North, Northenden, Baguley, West Timperley, Partington (1st), Partington (2nd), Cadishead (1st) & Cadishead (2nd)