Bollington railway station

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Bollington
Bollington Station 1844978 80d6cbbd.jpg
View northward, towards Stockport and Manchester in 1965
Location Bollington, Cheshire East
England
Coordinates 53°17′36″N2°06′29″W / 53.2934°N 2.1080°W / 53.2934; -2.1080 Coordinates: 53°17′36″N2°06′29″W / 53.2934°N 2.1080°W / 53.2934; -2.1080
Grid reference SJ929773
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway
Pre-groupingMacclesfield Committee of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and North Staffordshire Railways
Post-groupingGroup Committee No. 1 of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railways
Key dates
2 August 1869 (1869-08-02)Opened [1]
5 January 1970 (1970-01-05)Closed [1]

Bollington railway station was a railway station serving the town of Bollington in Cheshire, England. It was opened in 1869 by the Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway (MB&M) - a joint line constructed and operated by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&L) and North Staffordshire Railways (NSR). The passenger station was on the north side of Grimshaw Lane, with a goods yard on the south side.

Initially services ran between Macclesfield and Marple, [2] but this was soon extended so that direct trains ran between Macclesfield and Manchester London Road. [3] A number of additional services were supplied between Bollington and Macclesfield, as a significant number of Macclesfield workers lived in Bollington. In 1921, there were 14 additional shuttle services between the two towns using a petrol railcar purchased by the Great Central Railway (GCR) (successor to the MS&L) and nicknamed the "Bollington Bug". [4] The Bug was replaced in 1935 by a Sentinel steam railcar that ran the shuttle service, until it was withdrawn at the start of 1939. [5]

The station buildings were built to NSR designs, as were most other structures on the MB&M, [6] while most train services were operated by the MS&L and later the GCR. [7] An exception to this being the NSR Summer Saturday services between Macclesfield and Buxton. [7]

The station closed in January 1970, along with the line between Macclesfield and Marple; the buildings were demolished and the track was lifted by the end of 1971. [8] The trackbed now forms part of the Middlewood Way, a recreational path between Macclesfield and Marple. Part of the goods station site provides a car park for the path. [9]

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References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Quick (2009), p. 92.
  2. ↑ Jeuda (1983), p. 12.
  3. ↑ Jeuda (1983), p. 17.
  4. ↑ Jeuda (1983), p. 34.
  5. ↑ Jeuda (1983), p. 40.
  6. ↑ Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 87.
  7. 1 2 Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 200.
  8. ↑ Jeuda (1983), p. 54.
  9. ↑ "Middlewood Way" (PDF). Cheshire East Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
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