Fallowfield railway station
| Fallowfield | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Fallowfield |
| Area | Manchester |
| Coordinates | 53°26′28″N 2°13′07″W / 53.4411°N 2.2186°WCoordinates: 53°26′28″N 2°13′07″W / 53.4411°N 2.2186°W |
| 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 | Station opened |
| 7 July 1958 | Station closed |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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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.
[edit] References
- ^ Friends of the Fallowfield Loop
- ^ Turn Metrolink into a cycle path - News - South Manchester Reporter
- ^ Dow, George (1962). Great Central, Volume Two: Dominion of Watkin, 1864-1899. Shepperton: Ian Allan. p. 229. ISBN 0 7110 1469 8.
- ^ Eyewitness in Manchester - South Manchester Loop Line Walk
- ^ http://www3.telus.net/public/nixonkg/railway.htm
- ^ Fallowfield Loop
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Wilbraham Road | LNER Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Fallowfield Loop |
Levenshulme South | ||
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