Wardleworth railway station

Wardleworth
The site of the station in November 2007
Location
Place	Wardleworth
Area	Rochdale
Grid reference	SD902140
Operations
Original company	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	1
History
1 November 1870 (1870-11-01)	Opened
16 June 1947 (1947-06-16)	Closed
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Wardleworth railway station served the township of Wardleworth in Rochdale, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England, from 1870 until closure in 1947. It was on the Facit Branch between Rochdale and Facit, which was extended to Bacup in 1881. The station was quite well placed for Rochdale town centre and so, in addition to the branch trains, a few other services from Manchester terminated here. Between here and Rochdale station was the Roch Valley Viaduct, now demolished.

References

Lost Railways of Lancashire by Gordon Suggitt (ISBN 1-85306-801-2)

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Rochdale Line closed, Station open		L&YR Rochdale to Bacup Line		Shawclough and Healey

Railways in Rochdale (Past, Present and Future)

Legend

To Bacup

To Calderdale

Broadley

Littleborough

Shawclough and Healey

Wardleworth

Smithy Bridge

Rochdale Town Centre

Rochdale

Newbold

Kingsway Business Park

To Bury

To Oldham

Middleton

To Manchester

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Rochdale	Broadfield Broadley Middleton Milnrow New Hey Shawclough and Healey Wardleworth

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Tameside	Ashton Moss Ashton Park Parade Audenshaw Droylsden Dukinfield and Ashton Dukinfield Central Godley East Hooley Hill Micklehurst Oldham Road Park Bridge Staley and Millbrook

Trafford	Altrincham (1st) Bowdon Broadheath (Altrincham) Cornbrook Dunham (W&SR) Dunham Massey Partington West Timperley

Wigan	Amberswood (Hindley) Astley Atherleigh Atherton Bag Lane Boar's Head Hindley Green Hindley South Howe Bridge Leigh Lower Ince Pennington Platt Bridge Red Rock Tyldesley Westleigh West Leigh and Bedford Whelley Wigan Central

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Coordinates: 53°37′23″N 2°08′56″W / 53.623°N 2.149°W / 53.623; -2.149