Oldham Clegg Street railway station
Oldham Clegg Street | |
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General information | |
Location | Oldham, Oldham England |
Coordinates | 53°32′16″N 2°06′34″W / 53.53782°N 2.10958°W |
Grid reference | SD 928 046 |
Platforms | 4 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway (OA&GB) |
Pre-grouping | OA&GB |
Post-grouping | OA&GB |
Key dates | |
26 August 1861 | Opened |
4 May 1959 | Closed to passengers |
29 January 1968 | Closed to freight |
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Oldham Clegg Street railway station was the Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway station that served the town of Oldham in northwest England, it had three associated goods stations.
Passenger station
The station was the northernmost passenger station belonging to the Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway (OA&GB). It opened on 26 August 1861 when the OA&GB opened its line to here from Guide Bridge.[a][2][3]
The station was located to the north of Sheepwashes Lane and tunnel at the end of Clegg Street which ran over the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) and then over the OA&GB to terminate after the station on its south eastern side.[b]
The station was in a deep cutting to the north of Clegg Street with some of the buildings at road level, the main platform was 270 feet (82 m) longwith a bay platform at the Ashton end, there was also an island platform with tracks on both sides. There was an overall roof from the station buildings towards the northeast, a refreshment room was provided, the only station in Oldham to have one.[5][4] By 1866 the L&YR's Oldham Central station was built immediately adjacent to the station, immediately before the junction between the two lines.[3][6]
The OA&GB parcels office was located to the north of the station between it and Central station, an enclosed ramp was provided access from the booking office. Access to the platforms was from a footbridge attached to the northeast side of Clegg Road overbridge.[7][8][9]
The station was rebuilt between 1899 and 1901 following a request by the Oldham Town Clerk in 1889. The modifications involved re-constructing the Clegg Street overbridge, new platforms, a milk bridge leading to a loading stage, the bridge was provided with hydraulic lifts, there were luggage lifts installed in the main building.[8][7][10]
Services
In 1861 the station was served by twelve trains in each direction, with five services each way on Sundays. The trains mostly ran through to
By 1895 the station had twenty three OA&GB services each way with an extra one on Saturdays. there were eleven services each way on Sundays, all but four of the weekday services continued to
This service pattern continued without much change, the 1910 timetable shows only minor changes such as one of the through services to Rochdale now continuing to Huddersfield.[15]
In 1922 the station had over thirty services departing daily towards
The OA&GB was not affected by the grouping of 1923 remaining an independent joint line leased jointly by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).[17] Its services were shown in the LMS timetable and whilst there had been some consolidation between the companies they were still operated separately, with OA&GB services being annotated NE. Weekdays had 14 OA&GB services with an additional six on Saturdays, LMS had eleven with an additional three on Saturdays, there was still one daily through carriage to and from London.[18]
Goods stations
There were three goods stations associated with Clegg Street station, one OA&GB, one LNWR (later LMS) and one MS&LR (later GCR then LNER).
The first one to be constructed appears to be the MS&LR one as it is the only one present on the 1882 OS map, this was located at the end of a branch that ran back from the OA&GB line, crossing the line to be between the OA&GB and L&YR lines, it ran alongside Sheepwashes Lane but appears to have been accessed from Wellington Street.[4] This goods station was able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock, it was equipped with a ten-ton crane.[19] The warehouse was of two-storeys until it burnt down just before the First World War.[20]
By 1894 there were three goods sheds, the second one belonging to the LNWR, this station was located on the bend of the branch that led to the MS&LR shed, before the branch crossed the OA&GB line. It was an unusually curved structure with four covered hoists, and was similarly able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock, it was equipped with a ten-ton crane.[19][9] The warehouse was sold to developers in 1993 but continued to deteriorate until it was demolished in 2012.[20]
The third goods shed is also shown on the 1894 map, this one is located on the inside of the curved branch, it is the OA&GB one shown on the map as a joint concern (between the LNWR and the MS&LR), later photographs show this as an open-sided hipped-roof tranship shed.[9][21]
Closure
The passenger service was withdrawn on 4 May 1959.[3][22] At the same time a parcel concentration depot was being built on the goods yard site, it opened shortly after, goods services were withdrawn on 29 January 1968, except for a private siding at Clegg Street which closed in February 1970.[23][24] The parcel depot closed in 1982 unable to compete with road traffic.[25]
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Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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Park Bridge Line and station closed |
Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway Leased jointly by |
Terminus | ||
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Oldham & Rochdale branch |
Oldham Mumps Line closed, station open | |||
London and North Western Railway Oldham branch |
Oldham Glodwick Road Line and station closed |
References
Notes
- ^ The Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway was the full name of the railway as defined in its enabling Act, it was often shortened by the omission of -under-Lyne and Junction.[1]
- ^ Dow (1962) has Sheepwashers Lane, the OS map of 1882 has Sheepwashes Lane, leading to Sheepwashes.[4]
Citations
- ^ "Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway: An Act for the Construction of Railways to supply direct Communication between Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Guide Bridge, and for the Accommodation of the Neighbourhood. Local Act, 20 & 21 Victoria I, c. cxxxvii". UK Parliamentary Archives. 1857. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ Dow 1959, p. 255.
- ^ a b c Quick 2022, p. 346.
- ^ a b c "Ordnance Survey Six-inch map Lancashire XCVII (includes: Lees; Oldham.)". National Library of Scotland. c. 1882. Retrieved 28 June 2021-Map survey was conducted between 1844 and 1863.
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ Fraser 1963, p. 164.
- ^ Wells 2002, p. 41.
- ^ a b Hooper 1991, p. 31.
- ^ a b Wells 2002, p. 46.
- ^ a b c "Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Lancashire XCVII.10 (Oldham)". National Library of Scotland. 1894. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ Dow 1962, p. 121.
- ^ Dow 1959, p. 286.
- ^ Bradshaw 2011, p. 461.
- ^ Bradshaw 2011, p. 333.
- ^ Bradshaw 2011, p. 352.
- ^ Bradshaw 1968, pp. 514, 519 & 669.
- ^ Bradshaw 1985, pp. 484 & 723.
- ^ Dow 1965, p. 347.
- ^ LMS Railway 1939, table 144.
- ^ a b The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 413.
- ^ a b Pixton 2021, p. 133.
- ^ Wells 2002, p. 48.
- ^ Hurst 1992, p. 14 (refs 0657 & 0658).
- ^ Clinker 1978, p. 104.
- ^ Wells 2002, p. 54.
- ^ Hooper 1991, p. 34.
Bibliography
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- Bradshaw, George (1968) [April 1910]. April 1910 Railway Guide. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. OCLC 30645.
- OCLC 12500436.
- Clinker, C.R. (October 1978). Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830–1977. Bristol: Avon-Anglia Publications & Services. OCLC 5726624.
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- Fraser, N. (1963). "The Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway: a centenary study". The Railway Observer. pp. 164–166.
- Hooper, John (1991). An Illustrated History of Oldham's Railways. Pinner, Middlesex: Irwell Press. OCLC 650187960.
- Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
- LMS Railway (1939). London Midland & Scottish Passenger Railway Timetable- July 3rd to September 24th, inclusive, 1939. London: LMS.
- Pixton, Bob (2021). Joint line operation around Manchester and in South Yorkshire. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books Ltd. OCLC 1253032935.
- Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original(PDF) on 25 November 2022.
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Further reading
- British Railways Pre-Grouping Atlas and Gazetteer (Map) (5th ed.). 1" = 8 miles. Cartography by W. Philip Conolly. ISBN 0-7110-0320-3.
- Bairstow, Martin (1987). The Manchester and Leeds Railway:The Calder Valley Line. ISBN 9780951030264.