Manchester Mayfield railway station

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The remains of the front of the station. The building has been badly damaged by fire in recent years.

Manchester Mayfield was the name of a former main railway station in Manchester, England. The station first opened to passengers in 1911.

It was located adjacent to Manchester London Road station (renamed Manchester Piccadilly in 1960) in Manchester City Centre, UK. It was constructed as an overspill station for London Road because at that stage London Road was not big enough to cope with the huge volume of passengers.

As the traffic decreased it became surplus to requirements was closed on 23 August 1960. It gradually rotted away but was given a temporary respite a decade later when it was converted into a parcel depot which began operation on the 6 July 1970.

The parcel depot was eventually closed in the 1980s and left the building idle ever since.

[edit] Future

Despite an extension and major renovation of Piccadilly Station it is again running out of capacity so there has recently been a proposal to re-open Mayfield. It will either be a terminus, as it was in a previous life, or lines will be extended through the station to join up with the existing line on to Manchester Oxford Road.^{[citation needed]}

http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/upload/pdf/nms-gmpte.pdf provides details of the proposed link from Mayfield to Oxford Road, suggesting a small number of through platforms.

[edit] Use in television productions

Since its closure Manchester Mayfield has on occasion been used for television productions. Most notably it was used as a backdrop for a drug traffickers den in the Granada production of Prime Suspect 5 starring Helen Mirren, and "Sheffield railway station" in The Last Train.

Coordinates: 53°28′32″N, 2°13′36″W

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