'It can take an hour to go five miles': The Greater Manchester town with gridlocked traffic and trains only twice a week
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOn a sunny Wednesday morning in Denton, you might expect to see the town's train station packed with commuters and shoppers making their way into Manchester or nearby Ashton.
Instead, weeds grow through the train tracks and the platform is eerily quiet. The only sound to be heard is from cars and HGVs whizzing along the M67, which runs parallel.
The station is serviced by just two trains a week, and local residents have to make a formal request if they want it to stop.
It currently only runs between Stockport and Stalybridge twice on a Saturday morning. READ MORE:Petrol station drops prices so low in bid to have 'cheapest fuel in the UK' Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is currently running a consultation about whether to bring the station, which hasn't had a regular service since the 1990s, back into use.
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