Lees | |
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General information | |
Location | Oldham England |
Coordinates | 53°32′23″N2°04′09″W / 53.5396°N 2.0693°W Coordinates: 53°32′23″N2°04′09″W / 53.5396°N 2.0693°W |
Platforms | 2 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Opened | 5 July 1856 |
Closed | 2 May 1955 |
Original company | London and North Western Railway |
Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
Key dates | |
2 May 1955 | Closed to passengers |
16 December 1963 | Closed to goods traffic |
13 April 1964 | Line closed |
Lees railway station opened on 5 July 1856 at Lees, Lancashire, when the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR) opened the branch from Greenfield to Oldham. [1] [2]
The station was located to the south-east of St. John Street, where it crossed the railway. There were two running lines with platforms on the outer sides connected by a footbridge. The main building was to the south of the line and was accessed by a ramp running down from the road over-bridge. [3] To the south east of the station was a goods yard with a goods shed and between the station and the goods shed was a coal depôt. The goods yard was able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock and was equipped with a ten ton crane. [3] [4]
Services Initially services ran to Oldham Mumps (L&NWR) and to Greenfield with some of these continuing to Delph. From 1 July 1862 trains were extended from Oldham Mumps to Oldham Clegg Street, later that year the L&NWR closed its Mumps station replacing it with Oldham Glodwick Road. [5] [6]
By 1866 the station saw fourteen services in each direction (four on Sundays) of which three continued to Delph (none on Sundays). [7] By 1922 the number of services had increased to about thirty-nine each way (there was some variation on Saturdays) of which eighteen continued to Delph (none on Sundays). [8] In 1939 the LMS service was about the same with around thirty-eight services each way, with even more variation on Saturdays, twenty-one of which continued to Delph (except on Sundays). [9]
The station closed to passengers on 2 May 1955, when the Delph Donkey passenger train service to Delph via Greenfield was withdrawn. [2] [10] The station closed to goods traffic on 16 December 1963. [11] The line remained open until 13 April 1964. [12]
Not far from the station, to the north east, was Lees Engine Shed which was open from 1878 to April 1964. [11]
Currently the line is a cyclepath and there is no evidence of the station remaining. [13] [14]
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