Clifton railway station, Greater Manchester

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Clifton railway station, Greater Manchester by Nigel Thompson as part of the Geograph project.

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Clifton railway station, Greater Manchester

Image: © Nigel Thompson Taken: 6 May 2021

Opened in 1847 by the East Lancashire Railway, soon to become the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, this was a junction station until 1966. The line from Accrington came in beyond the end of the left hand platform, and there were two more platforms and a station building to the extreme left of the image, now hidden by trees. View SE towards Salford. Although the line has been electrified since Image was taken from a similar position some eight years earlier, still only a handful of trains per day called here at the time this image was taken.

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Image Location

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Latitude
53.522085
Longitude
-2.313989