Middleton railway station (England)

(Redirected from Middleton railway station (Lancashire)) Former railway station in England This article is about the closed station in Greater Manchester. For the similarly named station in County Cork, see Midleton railway station. For the similarly named station in Northumbria, see Middleton North railway station.

Middleton
General information
Location	Rochdale England
Coordinates	53°32′56″N 2°11′30″W / 53.5490°N 2.1917°W / 53.5490; -2.1917
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 May 1857 (1857-05-01)	Opened
7 September 1964	Closed to passengers
11 October 1965	Closed for freight

Middleton Railway station served the town of Middleton.

The station opened on 5 January 1857 when the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) opened a branch line to serve the town from Middleton Junction.

The station was located to the south east of the junction of Oldham Road (now the A669) and Townley Street.

Originally the station had a single platform. It was rebuilt with two platforms in 1885-1886. There were goods lines on both sides of the main running lines and a goods shed to the south. The goods yard was able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock and was equipped with a five ton crane.

A Cotton shed (described on the map as a goods shed) opened about 1907, it had a rail link into Neva Cotton Mills.

The station closed to passengers on 7 September 1964 and completely on 11 October 1965 when the branch also closed.

References

^ Quick 2022, p. 314.
^ Lancashire XCVI.8 (Map). 25 inch to the mile. Ordnance Survey. 1891.
^ Marshall 1970, p. 16.
The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 371.
Lancashire XCVI.8 (Map). 25 inch to the mile. Ordnance Survey. 1922.
Hurst 1992, p. 40 (ref 1828).
"Central Lines". Archived from the original on 9 February 2011.

Bibliography

Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
Marshall, John (1970). The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway. Vol. 2. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-4906-9.
Quick, Michael (2022) . Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) (5th revised to July 2022 (5.04) ed.). Railway & Canal Historical Society.
The Railway Clearing House (1970) . The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.

Railways in Rochdale

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Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Middleton Junction		L&YR Middleton branch		Terminus

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