Cadishead railway station

Cadishead
General information
Location	Cadishead, Salford England
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Cheshire Lines Committee
Pre-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Key dates
1 September 1873 [1]	Opened as Cadishead
1879	Closed
29 May 1893	New station opened on deviation also called Cadishead
30 November 1964	Closed

Cadishead railway station was a railway station on the Cheshire Lines Committees Glazebrook East Junction to Skelton Junction Line serving the village of Cadishead, near Irlam, Greater Manchester.

There were 2 stations that carried the name Cadishead, the first opened on 1 September 1873. ^[2] It was an early closure however, being very close to Irlam railway station located 1 mile away, it closed on 1 August 1879.

The second station that carried the name was built in 1892, and opened to passengers on 29 May 1893. ^[3] It was also on the same line, however the need for the new station was due to the building of the Manchester Ship Canal which necessitated the line to be deviated and built up from Glazebrook East Junction to clear the new ship canal.

Under the regrouping the station remained as part of CLC up until 1948. It served the local steel works and other local industries, with people travelling every day from Timperley and beyond.

By 1959 the station's patronage was falling: only 60 people a week were using it. ^[4] At this time only 11 trains^{[ clarification needed ]} called at the station in the direction of Liverpool (via Glazebrook East Junction) although most only went as far as Warrington Central, and the other 6 towards Stockport. It was already being touted for closure by the BTC around 1959, although it managed to survive another five years. ^[5]

The station finally closed for good on 28 November 1964, as it had been named along with the other two stations on the line in Beeching's 1963 report.

The line through the station however lasted as a goods only line until 1983 when extensive repairs to the Cadishead Viaduct were required. This track was then lifted in the late 1980s and left to decay.

The station at Cadishead is still extant however, although heavily overgrown and in a sorry state of repair.

References

1. Disused Stations
2. Irlam And Cadishead In the Past By Marion Beeston
3. Disused Stations
4. Manchester Guardian November 1964.
5. Manchester Guardian November 1964.

• Beeston, Marion. "Irlam and Cadishead in the Past".^{[ permanent dead link ]}
• "Disused Stations".
• "Railway Deviations built by the Manchester Ship Canal".

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Glazebrook Line closed, station open		Cheshire Lines Committee Glazebrook East Junction to Skelton Junction Line		Partington Line and station closed

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