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Notes
- ↑ The station is not shown on the national Library of Scotlands online copy of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map surveyed in 1844—1845 despite the line being shewn (they both opened on the same day), the map has been updated to show Ashton-under-Lyne data up to 1863 and indeed it shows Oldham Clegg Street and the line running from there to the Oldham branch that was opened on 1 July 1861, but Oldham Glodwick Road is not shown and that opened on 1 November 1862. The station must be situated between the convergence of the two companies lines and Albion Corn Mill. [6]
Citations
- ↑ "Opening of the new Railway to Greenfield". The Manchester Guardian (1828-1900). 7 July 1856. p. 3. ProQuest 473916112.
- 1 2 Quick 2022, p. 346.
- 1 2 3 Hooper 1991, p. 3.
- ↑ Holt & Biddle 1986, p. 153.
- ↑ Goode 1986, p. 23.
- ↑ "Ordnance Survey Six-inch map Lancashire Sheet XCVII". National Library of Scotland. 1882. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ↑ "The London and North-western Railway (Oldham Branch Deviation, &c.) Act, 1853.: An Act for conferring additional Powers on the London and North-western Railway Company with reference to the Construction of their Oldham Branch, and for making an Alteration in such Branch; and for other Purposes.. Local and Personal Act, 16 & 17 Victoria I, c. clvii". UK Parliamentary Archives. 1853. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
- ↑ Brown 2021, pp. 91 & 94.
- ↑ "Olham, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Guide Bridge Junction Railways". The Manchester Guardian (1828-1900). 15 November 1856. p. 6. ProQuest 473936157.
- 1 2 Reed 1996, p. 91.
- ↑ Bairstow 1990, p. 65.
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