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Pendleton formerly Pendleton Broad Street
(1889 - 1998)


Pendleton Station was a railway station serving Pendleton, a district of Salford on the Manchester to Southport line opening in June 1889 as Pendleton Broad Street. It later became Pendleton

Until the 1980s, Pendleton was one of the more important stations on the line, one of only two stations with a Sunday service. The nearby Salford Crescent railway station, which opened in 1987, however, took much of the passenger traffic away from Pendleton station, sending it into terminal decline. In 1988, some services were withdrawn leaving Pendleton served by Atherton line trains only

An arson attack in July 1994 led to the station being closed temporarily although by this time it was only being served by 4 trains each day. Final closure came in 1998 after it was deemed that repairing the damage caused by the vandalism would not represent good value for money

The platform-level buildings have all been demolished, but the remnants of both island platforms are still visible from passing trains









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