Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway (OA&GB)
Pre-grouping
OA&GB
Post-grouping
OA&GB
Key dates
26 August 1861 (1861-08-26)
Station opened
by 1925
Goods yard closed
4 May 1959 (1959-05-04)
Station closed to passengers
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Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway
Legend
L&YR to Rochdale
LNWR to Greenfield
Oldham Glodwick Road
Oldham Mumps (LNWR)
Oldham Mumps
L&YR to Manchester
Oldham Central
Oldham Clegg St
GCR Clegg St Goods
LNWR Clegg St Goods
GCR Scottfield Goods
Viaduct
Park Bridge
Ashton Oldham Road
L&YR to Droylsden
Ashton Charlestown
GCR curve from 1911
L&YR to Stalybridge
Ashton Moss (1861-62)
LNWR Oldham Road Goods
LNWR link from 1876
LNWR to Droylsden
Removed in 1938
GCR to Stalybridge
GCR to Manchester
Guide Bridge
LNWR goods
GCR to Hyde
LNWR to Stockport
Legend
Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway
London and North Western Railway
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Great Central Railway
End of electrified section from Guide Bridge
1912 map of railway lines in the area
Park Bridge Railway Station was a railway station on the Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway (OA&GB) that served the village of Park Bridge, in the Medlock Valley near Ashton-under-Lyne's border with Oldham. It was sometimes known as Parkbridge, and 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.[1] The station opened on 26 August 1861 when the line opened.[a][3]
The station was located on an embankment leading up to the south side of the viaduct over the River Medlock. The main station building was on the eastern, down, side of the running lines leading on to the shorter of two platforms.[b] There was an access road and ramp from the Park Bridge Iron Works access road.[5]
A waiting shelter was provided on the other, longer, up platform, which appeared to be constructed from baulks of timber, perhaps re-used sleepers. Access to this platform was via steps up the embankment from a footpath that ran along the bottom of the embankment.[5]
There were several goods sidings to the east of the station with no facilities other than a weighing machine. A branch led from the sidings into the Iron Works.[5]
In 1861 the station was served by eight down trains and six up on weekdays, with five services each way on Sundays.[6] By 1895 the station had twenty three OA&GB services each way with an extra one on Saturdays. there were eleven services each way on Sundays.[7] In addition there were three LNWR services to Stockport, but none in the other direction.[8]
Goods services at the station stopped sometime between 1912 and 1925, with only private siding traffic being handled afterwards. The private siding closed in February 1964.[9]
The passenger station closed on 4 May 1959 following the withdrawal of passenger services on the line.[3][10]
Park Bridge viaduct was 200 yards (180 m) long and 96.5 feet (29.4 m) high with nine arches of 50 feet (15 m), it was reconstructed in 1960 as the line continued to handle heavy parcels traffic until 1967. The viaduct was demolished in February and March 1971.[11]
After the lines closure Granada Television's "Inheritance" series filmed a staged crash of 1850 on the embankment.[12]
Preceding station
Disused railways
Following station
Oldham Road, Ashton
Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway
Leased jointly by L&NW & GC
Oldham Clegg Street
^Hooper 1991, p. 39.
^"Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway: An Act for the Construction of Railways to supply direct Communication between Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Guide Bridge, and for the Accommodation of the Neighbourhood. Local Act, 20 & 21 Victoria I, c. cxxxvii". UK Parliamentary Archives. 1857. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
^ abQuick 2022, p. 352.
^Simmons 1997, p. 548.
^ abc"Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Lancashire XCVII.14 (Alt; Bardsley; Oldham)". National Library of Scotland. 1894. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^Dow 1959, p. 286.
^Bradshaw 2011, table 461.
^Bradshaw 2011, table 333.
^Clinker 1978, p. 106.
^Hurst 1992, p. 14 (ref 0657).
^Marshall 1981, pp. 57–59.
^"Panorama: An 1850 crash staged". The Railway Magazine. 113 (797): 522. September 1967.
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