Manchester Airport Railway Station

Always end up hee when I fly home from abroad. This time missed my train by 3 minutes so had to wait an hour. Spent the majority in the café chowing down on a «British Rail Sausage Roll» and a cup of coffee. Actually the sausage roll was amazing and they served a great cup of coffee. The station is immaculate, the staff both courteous and friendly and really didn’t mind the wait time for my train home.

Manchester Airports railway station is located inside the airport, just a lift up to the coach station and a short walk to all the terminals.
Here you can board the metrolink now, on the blue line which goes up to Cornbrook, from there you can go near enough any stop what is run by the metrolink network. Trains also run from this location to Middlesbrough, Glasgow and Manchester Piccadily, even Liverpool and Leeds runs a direct train from here. The train takes 25 minutes to Piccadily which calls through East Didsbury and Gatley, the train works out much quicker as it would take 55 minutes to get to Piccadily on the metrolink, which includes a change at Cornbrook and doesn’t include the waiting time expected there.
Ticket inspectors seem to get on and off at this station from my experiance today.
It is quite a quiet station and only something you would use when going to the airport really, it does not have any faciltieis close by apart from in arrivals and that is abit of a walk away.
Toilets are avaliable here, I did only notice a ladies toilet but they is both genders around the corner near the National Express coach station.
This railway station is just what you would expect from a big place like Manchester, with metrolink and rail links and they is shops and resturants, although few a short walk away but you don’t want to be going there if you are not visiting the airport. for a Venue — Airport hub this is good however if it was supposed to be a major station then it could command 1 star but I feel 2 is fair. It would be nice if they was a newsagents or café in the station, to get the things you had forgot to get in the airport.