It is located 6 miles south-east of Manchester Piccadilly, on a spur of the West Coast Main Line to London Euston.

The decision was prompted by complaints that the first station was a long way from the industrial parts of town and even farther from the residential districts on the south side.

As part of publicity for the new Scott Mills Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, on 27 January 2025, all the station signs were changed from Stockport to "Scottport" for the day.

[2][3][4] The station is positioned at high level above the valley of the River Mersey and with lifts that link a pedestrian underpass to central Stockport and Edgeley.

There are no longer regular services from here to Bolton and points north (passengers should change at Piccadilly or Manchester Oxford Road).

The Monday–Saturday off-peak service pattern in trains per hour (tph) is: Avanti West Coast CrossCountry East Midlands Railway TransPennine Express Transport for Wales Rail Northern Trains Platform 0 — Typically services to Hazel Grove, Buxton, Sheffield, Norwich, Nottingham and Cleethorpes (opened in 2003).

[16][17][18] Local MP Andrew Gwynne commissioned research into the issue and reported "Sadly no such Act of Parliament exists, although it is common currency in the town that it does.

I made enquiries with the House of Commons Library and the Parliamentary Archives back at the time some intercity trains stopped using Stockport.

[23] Transport for Greater Manchester's Stockport Interchange, constructed on the site of the demolished bus station,[24] opened for passengers on 17 March 2024.

An extension to the Metrolink line from East Didsbury to Stockport was planned in 2004 and the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive applied for powers to build it.