Middleton Junction railway station

Middleton Junction Railway Station was on the Caldervale Line, from 1842 until closure on 3 January 1966. It lay within Chadderton. Originally called Oldham Junction, it was opened on 31 March 1842 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway, whose chief engineer was George Stephenson, as part of the branch to Oldham Werneth railway station. The line was notable for a stretch of steep 1 in 27 gradient called the Werneth Incline. On 12 August 1914 a goods and coal depot was opened at Chadderton. This was at the end of a 1097 yards long line which branched off the Oldham line approximately 400 yards from Middleton Junction at Chadderton Junction.^[1] The line from Chadderton Junction to Oldham was closed on 7 January 1963,^[2] but the Chadderton goods and coal depot remained open for an unrecorded period.

A branch line from Middleton Junction to Middleton was opened on 5 January 1857, closing to passengers on 7 September 1964 and completely on 11 October 1965.^[3]

References

• The Manchester and Leeds Railway by Martin Bairstow

Oldham Lines
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Past, Present and Future  Kirklees South Lines to Huddersfield Delph Diggle Measurements Dobcross Saddleworth Uppermill Moorgate Halt Friezland Tameside Lines to Tameside Rochdale Lines to Rochdale Greenfield Shaw and Crompton Tameside Lines to Tameside Royton Grasscroft Royton Junction Grotton and Springhead Derker Lees Oldham Mumps Oldham Glodwick Road Oldham Central Oldham Central(L&YR) Oldham King Street Oldham Clegg Street Westwood Oldham Werneth Tameside Lines to Ashton Chadderton Freehold Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway South Chadderton Rochdale Lines to Middleton and Rochdale Hollinwood Middleton Junction Failsworth Manchester Lines North to Manchester Manchester Lines North to Manchester

Coordinates: 53°32′27″N 2°10′13″W / 53.5408°N 2.1704°W / 53.5408; -2.1704