Clifton railway station

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See Clifton Down railway station for the Bristol station.

Clifton

Location

Place

Clifton Junction

Local authority

Salford (borough)

Operations

Station code

CLI

Managed by

Northern Rail

Platforms in use

Live departures and station information from National Rail

Annual Passenger Usage

2004/05 **

417

Passenger Transport Executive

PTE

Greater Manchester

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Clifton railway station serves Clifton, Greater Manchester, a suburb of Salford, Greater Manchester, England.

It lies on the Manchester-Preston Line. In 2006, the station has just one train a day in each direction (local services run by Northern Rail). 417 passengers are recorded as using the station in 2004-5.

Until 1974, the station was called Clifton Junction and has given this name to the locality the station serves. A line built by the LNWR between Patricroft and Bury crossed the Manchester-Preston Line here and made a junction with it. The name Molyneux Junction is also recorded but it is not clear whether this is an earlier name for Clfton Junction or a separate station on the Patricroft - Bury line. The line to Bury closed in 1966. The line to Patricroft had been reduced to freight working before World War II and was closed abruptly with a tunnel collapse in 1953 see Pendlebury.

The nearest alternative station to Clifton Junction with a regular service is Swinton 2km (1¼ miles away) on the line between Manchester and Wigan via Atherton.