Handforth Station is quite a nice, smaller station in Cheshire East, it is quite a small station, operated by Northern Railway who seem to be the only company to pass through the station. During the day, it is served by 2 trains per hour in each direction on the routes from Aldery Edge to Manchester Piccadilly and between Crewe and Manchester. This station opened in 1842, and they do seem to show a bit of history on their Southbound platform, with older signs including signs with DLR, and Underground on it, which are a little strange as this station isn't in London, and does not have those services. This station also has volunteers to make this station nicer, "The Friends of Handforth Station" were formed in 1996 and work on a lot of projects here such as including signs from other railway operators from other countries and London, and working on a station garden, as I only used the Southbound platform, with the unusual signage on, I didn't notice anything special about the gardens. This is only a small local station, mainly used to get into Manchester, Crewe or any smaller cities around that, the train doesn't really have many facilities but with it being a local station with an average of 0.2 million visitors or so each year, there probably isn't a huge demand for it, but this store is okay, yet below average so does not warrant anything over than a 2 star rating. read more