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Moston station, main building 1989
By 1989 New Moston was an area in rapid decline. The railway infrastructure reflected this with graffiti on the remaining building and a steel shutter on the booking office door.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 1 Apr 1989
0.08 miles
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Moston railway station, Greater Manchester, 2009
Opened in 1879 by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway on its line from Manchester Victoria to Rochdale. View south towards Manchester in deceptively verdant surroundings, some 8 years before the platform shelters were replaced. See
Image for a 2019 view in the opposite direction.
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 15 Aug 2009
0.08 miles
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Moston station, looking north in 1979
A Manchester train arrives at Moston in January 1979.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: Unknown
0.09 miles
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Moston station, looking north 1983
Leeds - Manchester Victoria train arrives at Moston early in 1983. Little had changed at Moston since the 1960s, though the colour light signal was new in 1974 after the demise of Moston Junction signalbox.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: Unknown
0.09 miles
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Moston station, looking north 1989
By 1989 New Moston was an area in rapid decline. Moston station echoed that decline with reduced facilities and an increasingly derelict appearance. The weather had to be truly atrocious to make one use the breeze block shelter on the Rochdale platform. An absence of tall chimneys over the brow of Hollinwood Avenue bridge indicates that Chadderton power station has been demolished.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 11 Feb 1989
0.09 miles
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Path approaching Hollinwood Avenue
This surfaced path links Nuthurst Road with Hollinwood Avenue and runs parallel with the railway in a cutting at Moston
Image: © Kevin Waterhouse
Taken: 9 Apr 2023
0.09 miles
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Moston station, looking south
Moston station around 15.15 on April 9th, 2008 with a Rochdale-Manchester Victoria train about to leave.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 9 Apr 2008
0.09 miles
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Moston station, looking north
View north from Moston station's Manchester-bound platform, taken around 15.00 on a very wet April 9th, 2008. First bridge is Hollinwood Avenue (A6104); the second is the M60 motorway. Pylon visible through the bridge effectively marks the site of the former Chadderton electricity generating station, now Broadway business park.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 9 Apr 2008
0.09 miles
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Platform art at Moston railway station
Image: © Raymond Knapman
Taken: 26 Jan 2012
0.10 miles
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Moston station, looking north in 1972
Moston station with its full 1930s station buildings in June 1972. The signal shown indicates that Moston Junction signalbox was still in use: it was destroyed by a suspicious fire in November 1973 and the signal replaced by a more modern, colour-light item, controlled from Vitriol Works signalbox, a short distance to the north of Moston station.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 3 Jun 1972
0.11 miles