Middleton railway station (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	Middleton, Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, England
Coordinates	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
Location

Middleton railway station served the town of Middleton, in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England, between 1857 and 1965. It was a stop on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR).

History

The station was opened on 5 January 1857, when the L&YR opened a branch line to serve the town from Middleton Junction.

It 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 but was rebuilt with two in 1885-86. 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 in about 1907; it had a railway link into Neva Cotton Mills.

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

Railways in Rochdale
Past, present and future
Rossendale Lines to Bacup Calderdale Lines to Calderdale Broadley Littleborough Shawclough and Healey Smithy Bridge Wardleworth Rochdale Newbold Rochdale Town Centre Kingsway Business Park Milnrow East Lancs Rly to Bury Newhey Broadfield Oldham Lines to Oldham Heywood Castleton Mills Hill Middleton Manchester Lines North to Manchester

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Middleton Junction		Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Middleton branch		Terminus

References

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) [2001]. 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) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.