Ashton Park Parade railway station

Coordinates: 53°29′09″N 2°05′33″W / 53.48595°N 2.09237°W / 53.48595; -2.09237
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Ashton Park Parade
Site of the station (1996)
General information
LocationAshton-under-Lyne, Tameside
England
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companySheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
Pre-groupingGreat Central Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
23 December 1845Opened as Ashton[1]
30 July 1862Renamed Ashton Park Parade[2]
5 November 1956Closed[1]

Ashton Park Parade railway station was a station on the line between

Guide Bridge and Stalybridge in Greater Manchester, England. This station served the town of Ashton-under-Lyne, now served only by Ashton Charlestown
, north of this former station.

Location

The down platform of Ashton Park Parade station was located on what is now a grass site to the south of Ashton's Park Parade Bypass and before the construction of the Bypass the down platform was approached directly from the end of Warrington Street where there was a large cobbled yard for passenger and parcel vehicles. The up platform stood on the edge of the escarpment, supported by arches and overlooking Lower Wharf Street. To the east of this platform were coal staithes where coal was dropped into vehicles waiting below in the coal yard. The lines serving the coal staithes were controlled by a signal box located on the opposite side of the line and just to the east of the down line platform where there was also a substantial goods siding. When the sidings were built Ashton's Old Baronial Hall was demolished to make way for them. These sidings occupied the land where the Bypass runs between the Parish Church and the railway line with the only remaining signs of the sidings being two wooden buildings in Church Street which once served the goods yard.

History

Opened by the

nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board in 1956. It closed to goods on 2 November 1963.[3]

Present day

No remains of the former station are evident other than the well preserved flight of stone steps which ascend from Lower Wharf Street and led into the former Station Yard at the down platform entrance. The railway line is still open;

Stockport to Stalybridge Line
. The only other clue of its existence is "The Station", a pub on Warrington Street, near the former station. The building of the Ashton by-pass sealed the fate of this station which cut it off from the towns main shopping street.

Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Stalybridge
Line and station open
  Great Central Railway
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
  Dukinfield Central
Line open, station closed

References

Railway lines in Tameside
Mossley
Park Bridge
Micklehurst
Oldham Road
Staley and Millbrook
Manchester Victoria
Droylsden
Stalybridge
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton West
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton Moss
Metrolink | L&NWR
Ashton Park Parade
Audenshaw
Dukinfield and Ashton
Droylsden
Dukinfield Central
Cemetery Road
Manchester Piccadilly
Guide Bridge
Hooley Hill
Fairfield
Flowery Field
Manchester Piccadilly
Hyde North
Denton
Hyde Central
Newton for Hyde
Godley
Hattersley
Broadbottom

53°29′09″N 2°05′33″W / 53.48595°N 2.09237°W / 53.48595; -2.09237