In 2022/2023, Fairfield had 16,572 entries and exits, making it the 2,248^th most used, out of 2,575 stations in Great Britain.
It ranked 896^th busiest (out of 997), with 154 scheduled services per week.
That's a daily average of 45.40 passengers starting or ending their journey here and 2.07 passengers per service, giving it the 1,489^th (out of 1,659) passenger to service ratio.

Service sample data based on scheduled services during the first week of the May 22 timetable.

A detailed breakdown of passenger journeys between individual stations can be found in our origin/destination matrix pages.

Plat.	Metres	VF*	Notes
Down	136	494
Up	136	494

*VF = Vicki Feet: the unit of measurement for platform lengths, as used in the excellent All The Stations. Conversion rate: YouTube video
Data derived from Network Rail timetable planning rules 2025 (Jan 2024)

2008-09 PTE Urban Area Station
2010-11 #No obvious reason to explain change in usage
2011-12 Continues high growth from previous year
2012-13 Change driven primarily by improvement of PTE infill
2019-20 Improved South East Manchester performance due to May 2018 timetable diverting TPE services via Manchester Victoria
2020-21 Severely reduced service between September and December 2020 due to the pandemic timetable

Location: Fairfield
CRS: FRF / NLC: 2780 / TIPLOC(S): FRFD
Station Facility Owner: Northern Trains
OS Grid Ref: 390476 397186
Constituency: Denton and Reddish
Local Authority: Tameside
NR Region: North West
PTE: Greater Manchester
ELR: HAJ 3m 52ch
This station is part of the Greater Manchester PTE

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Top 5 jouneys from Fairfield during 2022/2023:
•Manchester Piccadilly (3,949 journeys)
•Manchester Victoria (1,302 journeys)
•Manchester Oxford Road (823 journeys)
•Deansgate (246 journeys)
•Hyde Central (215 journeys)
Full reports can be created on our dedicataed ODM Pages.