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- Glodwick
Road (Oldham)
- Clegg
Street (Oldham)
- Park
Bridge
- Oldham Road (Ashton)
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Park Bridge
(1861 - 1959)
Park Bridge Railway Station was a
railway station on the Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide
Bridge Junction Railway that served the village of Park Bridge,
in the Medlock Valley near Ashton-under-Lyne's border with
Oldham. It was sometimes known as Parkbridge, and one photograph
of the station shows the station name board with the name as one
word and immediately adjacent the signal box with it shown as
two. The station opened on August 26 1861 when the line opened
The station was located on an embankment leading up to the south side of the viaduct over the River Medlock. The main station building was on the down side of the running lines leading on to the shorter of two platforms.
There was an access road and ramp from the Park Bridge Iron Works access road and a waiting shelter was provided on the other, longer, up platform
There were several goods sidings to the east of the station with no facilities other than a weighing machine. A branch led from the sidings into the Iron Works
In 1861, the station was served by eight down trains and six up on weekdays, with five services each way on Sundays. By 1895, the station had twenty three services each way with an extra one on Saturdays. there were eleven services each way on Sundays
Goods services at the station stopped sometime between 1912 and 1925, with only private siding traffic being handled afterwards. The private siding closed in February 1964 and the station closed to passengers on May 4 1959
On a personal note some of my great-great-grand parents worked at the Iron Works before moving to Liverpool
The station was located on an embankment leading up to the south side of the viaduct over the River Medlock. The main station building was on the down side of the running lines leading on to the shorter of two platforms.
There was an access road and ramp from the Park Bridge Iron Works access road and a waiting shelter was provided on the other, longer, up platform
There were several goods sidings to the east of the station with no facilities other than a weighing machine. A branch led from the sidings into the Iron Works
In 1861, the station was served by eight down trains and six up on weekdays, with five services each way on Sundays. By 1895, the station had twenty three services each way with an extra one on Saturdays. there were eleven services each way on Sundays
Goods services at the station stopped sometime between 1912 and 1925, with only private siding traffic being handled afterwards. The private siding closed in February 1964 and the station closed to passengers on May 4 1959
On a personal note some of my great-great-grand parents worked at the Iron Works before moving to Liverpool
