Fallowfield railway station

Fallowfield
Location
Place Fallowfield
Area Manchester
Grid reference SJ856938
Operations
Original company Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Pre-grouping Great Central Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
History
1 October 1891 (1891-10-01) Station opened
7 July 1958 (1958-07-07) Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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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 Remedy (formerly Bar XS), with the rest of the site taken by a block of flats and a Sainsbury's supermarket, which curiously has the car park at the old track level, but the shop floor entrance at road level.

Fallowfield railway station was on the Fallowfield Loop railway line.[1][2] The line between Chorlton-cum-Hardy and Fallowfield opened on 1 October 1891, the remaining section between Fallowfield and Fairfield opening on 2 May 1892,[3] before closing to passenger services in 1958 and closing completely in 1988.[4]

The line stretched from the surviving line at Fairfield and Gorton railway stations through Levenshulme South[5] and Fallowfield onto Wilbraham Road[6] 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.

References

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Wilbraham Road   LNER
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Fallowfield Loop
  Levenshulme South