Castleton railway station

For the railway station in Castleton, North Yorkshire, see Castleton Moor railway station

Castleton
Location
Place	Castleton
Local authority	Rochdale
Operations
Station code	CAS
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	0.081 million
2005/06 *	0.086 million
2006/07 *	0.088 million
2007/08 *	0.100 million
2008/09 *	0.123 million
2009/10 *	0.120 million
History
Opened 1875 (1875)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Castleton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Castleton railway station serves Castleton in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is 14 km (8¾ miles) north of Manchester Victoria on the Caldervale Line operated and managed by Northern Rail.

Services

On Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a half hourly service in each direction. Two per hour southbound to Manchester Victoria, with hourly extensions to Wigan Wallgate and two per hour northbound to Rochdale, with one of these continuing on to Leeds via Hebden Bridge and Brighouse. There are no longer any through services to Manchester via Oldham, this is due to closure of the Oldham Loop Line which is being converted for light rail use by Manchester Metrolink, which is planned to come into service as far as Rochdale Station in mid-2012 with further extensions into Oldham and Rochdale Town Centres by 2015.

In the evenings and on Sundays there is an hourly service to Manchester Victoria and to Leeds via Rochdale and Bradford Interchange on the Caldervale Line

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Mills Hill towards Bolton		Northern Rail Caldervale Line		Rochdale Terminus
Mills Hill towards Manchester Victoria		Northern Rail Caldervale Line		Rochdale towards Leeds
	Historical railways
Mills Hill		L&YR		Rochdale
Rochdale		L&YR		Heywood

History

The original station opened in 1839 at Blue Pits on the other side of the Rochdale-Manchester Road bridge. The current station opened in 1875. The Liverpool and Bury Railway from Bolton (opened in 1848) used to join the main line at a triangular junction a short distance south of the station. This was at one time a busy passenger & freight route often used by trains avoiding the busy Manchester area, but was closed to passengers on 5 October 1970.

East Lancashire Railway Future

The eastern portion of this line was retained for freight traffic after passenger trains ceased and it now forms the link with the East Lancashire Railway heritage route at Heywood. and the heritage line plans to extend its services along and towards a possible new bay platform at the station in the future, once permission is granted by Network Rail.

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Terminus		East Lancashire Railway Future Extension		Heywood

References

• The Manchester and Leeds Railway by Martin Bairstow (1983), (ISBN 0-907941-06-0)
• Forgotten Railways: North-West England by John Marshall (1981), David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd, Newton Abbott. (ISBN 0-7153-8003-6)

External links

• Train times and station information for Castleton railway station from National Rail

Railways in Rochdale (Past, Present and Future)
Legend To Bacup To Calderdale Broadley Littleborough Shawclough and Healey Wardleworth Smithy Bridge Rochdale Town Centre Drake Street Rochdale Newbold Kingsway To Bury Milnrow Broadfield New Hey To Oldham Heywood Castleton Middleton Mills Hill To Manchester