Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of Manchester,in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester,England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842,it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. Located to the south-east of the city centre,it hosts long-distance intercity and cross-country services to national destinations including London,Birmingham,Nottingham,Glasgow,Edinburgh,Cardiff,Bristol,Exeter,Plymouth,Reading,Southampton and Bournemouth;regional services to destinations in Northern England including Liverpool,Leeds,Sheffield,Newcastle and York;and local commuter services around Greater Manchester. It is one of 19 major stations managed by Network Rail. The station has 14 platforms:12 terminal and two through platforms. Piccadilly is also a major interchange with the Metrolink light rail system with two tram platforms in its undercroft.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways. It was the third-largest railway system based in northern England.
The Huddersfield line is the main railway line between the English cities of Leeds and Manchester,via Huddersfield. It is one of the busiest MetroTrain lines. The route travels south-south-west from Leeds through Dewsbury. After a short westward stretch through Mirfield,where it runs on the ex-L&YR section,it continues south-west through Huddersfield,using the Colne Valley to its headwaters. The long Standedge Tunnel,just after Marsden,crosses under the watershed;the majority of the run down to Manchester is in the Tame Valley. From Manchester,some services continue to Manchester Airport and others to Liverpool.
The Ashton,Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway was opened in 1846 to connect the industrial town of Ashton-under-Lyne to the developing railway network,and in particular to the port of Liverpool. It was a short line,joining the Manchester and Leeds Railway at Miles Platting and the connection to Liverpool was over that line and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
The Manchester and Leeds Railway was a British railway company that built a line from Manchester to Normanton where it made a junction with the North Midland Railway,over which it relied on running powers to access Leeds. The line followed the valley of the River Calder for much of the way,making for easier gradients but by-passing many important manufacturing towns. Crossing the watershed between Lancashire and Yorkshire required a long tunnel. The line opened throughout in 1841.
Preston railway station,in Preston,Lancashire,England,is an interchange railway station on the West Coast Main Line,half-way between London Euston and Glasgow Central. It is served by Avanti West Coast,Northern Trains and TransPennine Express services,plus Caledonian Sleeper overnight services between London and Scotland. It is also served by the Calder Valley line to Leeds and York,and by branch lines to Blackpool North,Ormskirk and Colne.
Denton railway station serves the town of Denton in Tameside,Greater Manchester,England,on the Stockport–Stalybridge line. It is served by two trains a week,one in each direction on Saturday mornings.
Stalybridge railway station serves Stalybridge,Greater Manchester,England. It lies on the Huddersfield Line,7+1⁄2 miles (12.1 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly and 8+1⁄4 miles (13.3 km) east of Manchester Victoria. The station is managed by TransPennine Express.
Guide Bridge railway station serves Guide Bridge in Audenshaw,Greater Manchester,England,and is operated by Northern Trains. The station is 4+3⁄4 miles (7.6 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly on both the Rose Hill Marple and Glossop Lines.
Ashton Park Parade railway station was a station on the line between Guide Bridge and Stalybridge in Greater Manchester,England. This station served the town of Ashton-under-Lyne,now served only by Ashton Charlestown,north of this former station.
The Oldham,Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway (OA&GB) was a British railway company,which opened in 1861,connecting Oldham,Ashton and Guide Bridge. The company survived until it was nationalised in 1948.
Clayton Bridge railway station,Manchester,was a railway station that served the locality between 1846 and 1968.
Oldham Clegg Street railway station was the Oldham,Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway station that served the town of Oldham in northwest England,it had three associated goods stations.
Park Bridge railway station was a stop on the Oldham,Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway (OA&GB) that served the village of Park Bridge in Tameside,Greater Manchester,England. It was located in the Medlock Valley near Ashton-under-Lyne's border with Oldham. It was sometimes known as Parkbridge;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.
Oldham Road railway station was two stations,one passenger and one goods,located either side of the L&YR main line and either side of Oldham Road,that served the town of Ashton-under-Lyne.
Park railway station served the Newton Heath and Philips Park areas of Manchester,England.
Ashton railway station was a station in Devon,opened by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1882 and closed in 1958
Oldham Mumps (L&NWR) railway station opened on 5 July 1856 as the terminus of the Oldham branch from Greenfield,the station served the Mumps area of Oldham. The station was probably only known as Oldham during its brief period of existence,the suffixes Mumps and L&NWR may have been added later to provide clarity between the various stations in Oldham. Hooper (1991) states the station was a temporary affair called Victoria. Several sources claim the station was only ever to be temporary.
The Oldham and Rochdale Line (ORL) is a light rail/tram line on the Manchester Metrolink in Greater Manchester,running from North Manchester to Rochdale town centre via Oldham,reusing most of the trackbed of the former Oldham Loop railway line which closed in 2009. The line was re-opened in a modified form as a tramway from 2012 –2014,as part of Phase 3 of the Metrolink's expansion.
Stalybridge railway station was an Ashton,Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway (AS&LJR) station in use from 1846 to 1917,it was the terminus of the company's line from Manchester Victoria.
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