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Salford Central Station
Platform 2.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 24 Sep 2014
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Platforms, Salford Central railway station
Looking west along the Manchester Victoria-bound platform.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 29 May 2015
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Northern Rail class 142, 142062, Salford Central railway station
Preparing to head to Manchester Victoria.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 29 May 2015
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The Great North Rail Project
A Northern by Arriva train at Salford Central is advertising The Great North Rail Project.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 18 Oct 2019
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Sprinter DMU at Salford Central Station
Sprinter DMU (diesel multiple unit) 150218 departs from Salford Central Station on its journey between Manchester Victoria and Southport.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 10 Sep 2019
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Manchester - Southport express passing Salford
View eastward, towards Manchester Victoria etc.: ex-L&Y main lines westward from Manchester. The 17.22 to Southport will call only at Wigan Wallgate and Southport St Luke's, reaching Southport Chapel Street at 18.15. The locomotive is Stanier/Ivatt 5MT 4-6-0 No. 44729 (built 1/49, withdrawn 10/66). Over on the far right are the ex-LNW lines westward from Manchester Exchange.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 9 Jun 1959
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Salford Central Railway Station
Salford Railway Station opened in 1838 as a terminus on the Manchester and Bolton Railway. The line was extended to Manchester Victoria in 1843 with the connection carried on iron columns. The station was renamed Salford Central in 1988, to avoid confusion with the far more recently built Salford Crescent (built to replace nearby Pendleton railway station), although it is by no means central to Salford being sited on New Bailey Street, just over the River Irwell from Manchester city centre. It is very close to Manchester's Spinningfields district and the Deansgate area. The three unique bridges that span New Bailey Street are an example of the lack of cooperation between railway companies at the time. Influenced by the Greek style, they are each different in design and are each individually Grade II or II* listed buildings.
The station has only two platforms in current use (platforms 3 & 4 have been disused since the early 1990s). It is served by trains to and from Manchester Victoria, towards Rochdale, Salford Crescent, Bolton, Wigan Wallgate and beyond.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 21 Mar 2017
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Salford Central railway station, Greater Manchester
Opened in 1838 by the Manchester & Bolton railway, later part of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.
View east towards Manchester Victoria shortly after the line was electrified. Clearly removing rampant buddleia wasn't part of the job.
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 14 Nov 2018
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Salford Central
Looking towards Manchester.
Image: © Gerald England
Taken: 16 Dec 2017
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Express for Llandudno coming away from Manchester Exchange past Salford station
View SE, towards Manchester Exchange/Victoria: ex-LNW Manchester - Warrington - Liverpool/Chester main line. Salford was served on this line by Ordsall Lane station, slightly to the west. The heavy 17.35 to Llandudno is double-headed, with Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 No. 45353 (built 1937, withdrawn 7/68 - one of the last) piloting BR Standard 5MT Caprotti-fitted 4-6-0 No. 73134 (built 9/56, withdrawn 1/68).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 24 Aug 1963
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