Broadbottom railway station

Broadbottom
Broadbottom railway station September 2007
Location
Place Broadbottom
Local authority Tameside
Operations
Station code BDB
Managed by Northern Rail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *  97,743
2005/06 * 107,315
2006/07 * 96,795
2007/08 * 98,055
2008/09 * 122,060
2009/10 * 119,014
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PTE Greater Manchester
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Broadbottom from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.
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Broadbottom
To Glossop/Hadfield

Broadbottom railway station serves the village of Broadbottom in Greater Manchester, England. It is on the Manchester-Glossop Line, 16 km (9.9 mi) east of Manchester Piccadilly. It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1842. It was renamed "Mottram" in 1845, but has since reverted to its original name.

East of the station is the Etherow Viaduct that crosses 120 feet (36 m) over the River Etherow. The official length of the viaduct is 422 feet 6 inches (127 metres 76 centimetres) long.

Services

There is generally a half-hourly daily service from Broadbottom to Manchester Piccadilly and Glossop/Hadfield. Trains operate hourly evenings and Sundays in each direction.

History

Officialdom has never seemed quite certain what to call the station lying at OS grid reference 63 SJ 99 and situated between milepost 9¾ and 10. The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne & Manchester Railway called it "Broadbottom" when it opened for passengers on 10th December 1842. Less than three years later, in July 1845, it became "Mottram". Undecided that this name was appropriate the MS&L decided on the best of both worlds when they renamed the station "Mottram and Broadbottom" as and from 1st May 1884.

Modern officials were, seemingly, not happy with such duplicity and the station reverted to its original title from 1st January 1954. Something of the former legend, though, was applied with the suffix "for Mottram and Charlesworth" remaining in use until comparatively recently.

Goods facilities here ceased on 15th July 1963 and the station remains open today. Catering for never more than local traffic the station did have a moment of glory in the 1920s when, for a short period, the morning restaurant car express from Manchester to Marylebone called here.

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