Fallowfield railway station

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This article is about the former station in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. For the station in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, see Fallowfield, Ontario railway station.

Fallowfield railway station was a railway station located on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. Today what remains of the station building is used as a public house called Bar XS, with the rest of the site taken by a Sainsbury's supermarket and a block of flats.

Fallowfield railway station was on the Fallowfield Loop railway line.[1][2] The line opened in 1892, before closing to passenger services in 1958 and finally completely in 1988.[3]

The line stretched from the surviving line at Fairfield and Gorton railway stations through Levenshulme South[4] and Fallowfield onto Wilbraham Road[5] and Chorlton-cum-Hardy before joining a section of line from Old Trafford to Manchester Central now used by the Manchester Metrolink tram system. The section of the line from Chorlton-cum-Hardy past Fallowfield is now used as a cycle-path.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Friends of the Fallowfield Loop
  2. ^ Turn Metrolink into a cycle path - News - South Manchester Reporter
  3. ^ Eyewitness in Manchester - South Manchester Loop Line Walk
  4. ^ http://www3.telus.net/public/nixonkg/railway.htm
  5. ^ Fallowfield Loop

Coordinates: 53°26′28″N, 2°13′07″W

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