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Railway Street, ROCHDALE, OL16 3RN

The 13.54 Manchester Victoria to Rochdale train (via Oldham Mumps) pauses at New Hey. Although the Ordnance Survey uses Newhey, the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and its successors have consistently used New Hey. After October 3rd, 2009 it won't matter: the station will be closed.

Metrolink Bombardier M5000 tram number 3054 approaches the outward (Rochdale) platform at Newhey Station.

A 2-car diesel unit, No 156 473, calls on its way to Manchester. More usually, the trains consist of 'Pacer' units, which must take the Blue Riband for being the most uncomfortable trains in the whole of Europe.

The "basic railway" at New Hey. Meagre, but there was full disabled access, clear timetable information and ample provision on the trains for both luggage and bicycles. The station retained the historic spelling of the area until the end (see closure notice here: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1493526). Newhey as a spelling is a corruption dating from after World War II (see, for example, 1948 OS 1 inch map here: http://www.npemap.org.uk/ ).

Taken from the overbridge, (Huddersfield Road). A Class 150 unit has just entered the station, bound for Rochdale.

Taken from exactly the same viewpoint as my previous photograph some 41 years earlier, Image After 3 October 2009, there will be no more trains here, but trams are coming to the rescue by about 2012.

This is the original Up platform, the Down platform now being derelict and out of use. The bridge in the distance carries Huddersfield Road (A640).

New Hey station on the former Oldham Loop railway has been demolished for the conversion of the line to Manchester Metrolink. Until its closure this station was listed as New Hey. The village was also recorded as New Hey in ordnance survey maps until at least the 1960s. However, over the years local usage as converted the name to Newhey and this is what the replacement Metrolink station will be known as.

Metrolink Bombardier M5000 tram number 3003 leaves Newhey tram station, heading in the direction of Oldham. The Newhey tram stop is situated to the south–east of Huddersfield Road; it has two side platforms. Of interest behind the opposite platform is the former "Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Cotton Warehouse"; all that remains of the former Newhey Railway Station and goods yard, a reminder of when this was part of a busy rail route and "cotton was King" in these parts. It probably dates from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century as the station first opened in 1863 and the LYR was taken over by the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) in 1922 (then the London Midland and Scottish, LMS, the following year).

Two signs on the redundant platform at New Hey solve the problem of knowing what train is going where on the single line between Shaw and Rochdale.