Mills Hill railway station

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General information
Location	Rochdale
Managed by	Northern
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	MIH
History
Original company	Manchester and Leeds Railway
Key dates
4 July 1839	Original station opened
11 August 1842	Closed
25 March 1985	Current station opened

Mills Hill railway station is in the Mills Hill area of Middleton in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. The station is 5¾ miles (9 km) north of Manchester Victoria on the Caldervale Line. Mills Hill lies on Middleton's common boundary with Chadderton, and thus serves both communities.

During the temporary closure of the Oldham Loop line for its conversion to Metrolink light rail (2009–12) the station acted as an informal railhead for much of the borough of Oldham.

With an annual patronage of 314,000 entries and exits per year Mills Hill station is the second busiest railway station within Transport for Greater Manchester's demise outside of Great Manchester itself. It is due to this fact that TfGM are pushing for funding to be made available to improve accessibility at the station for non-able bodied passengers. The station is second only to Greenfield Railway Station on the prioritized list for this funding.

History

The original station opened on 4 July 1839 before the completion of the branches to Middleton and Oldham, and closed on 11 August 1842 when these were opened. The current station opened on 25 March 1985 by British Rail at the same point as the original.

Services

On Monday to Saturday daytimes, there is a half-hourly service to Manchester Victoria southbound (with an hourly extension to Wigan) and Todmorden northbound. Since the December 2008 timetable change, alternate northbound trains continue eastwards to Leeds via Dewsbury or to Blackburn via Burnley (the latter service commencing at the May 2015 timetable change).

In the evenings there is a half hourly service to Manchester Victoria and hourly to Leeds via Bradford and to Blackburn, whilst on Sundays an hourly service operates in each direction to Manchester & Blackburn.

References

• The Manchester and Leeds Railway by Martin Bairstow

External links

• Train times and station information for Mills Hill railway station from National Rail

Railways in Rochdale
Past, present and future
Rossendale Lines to Bacup Calderdale Lines to Calderdale Broadley Littleborough Shawclough and Healey Smithy Bridge Wardleworth Rochdale Newbold Rochdale Town Centre Kingsway Business Park Milnrow East Lancs Rly to Bury Newhey Broadfield Oldham Lines to Oldham Heywood Castleton Mills Hill Middleton Manchester Lines North to Manchester

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Moston		Northern Caldervale Line or Todmorden/Rochdale-Kirkby-Wigan Wallgate		Castleton
	Historical railways
Middleton Junction Line open, station closed		Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway		Castleton Line and station open
	Disused railways
Middleton Junction Line open, station closed		Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway		Heywood Line closed, station open