Pendlebury railway station

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Pendlebury station was a railway station in the town of Pendlebury, now part of Salford in Greater Manchester. The station started off as part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Pendleton and Hindley line that grew into (and still exists today as) the Manchester Victoria to Wigan Wallgate line. Heading from Manchester towards Wigan, the proceeding station was at Irlams o' th' Height (closed in 1955), and the following station was Swinton (still open). Pendlebury station was closed in 1960 due to the Beeching cuts and low usage.

Ownership had passed from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and upon nationalisation it became property of British Railways.

It was located on the Bolton Road (A666), opposite St. Augustine's Church and about 700 metres east of the present day Swinton station. The station was located just before the entrance to a tunnel underneath Bolton Road and several other streets. A 1909 Ordnance Survey map shows no buildings on top of the tunnel's location, suggesting that it wasn't stable to be built upon at this time.

A pub, The Station Hotel was located on the opposite side of the road. The building still exists, but has been refurbished into an Italian restaurant called Isis. Some of the yellow brick work of the station is still visible on Bolton Road.

Clifton Tunnel (sometimes called Black Harry Tunnel), part of the London and North Western Railway's Clifton Branch, ran underneath the eastern end of the station. The layout was four tracks wide, with an island platform serving two of the tracks being connected to Bolton Road via a footbridge. Several sets of points lay at the eastern end of the station.