Ashton Park Parade railway station

Ashton Park Parade
Site of the station (1996)
Location
Place	Ashton-under-Lyne
Area	Tameside
Operations
Original company	Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
23 December 1845	Station opened as Ashton
30 July 1862	Renamed Ashton Park Parade
5 November 1956	Station closed
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Ashton Park Parade railway station was a station on the line between Guide Bridge and Stalybridge in Greater Manchester, England. This station served the town of Ashton-under-Lyne, now served only by Ashton Charlestown, north of this former station.

Location

Ashton Park Parade station was located on the site of what is now Ashton's Park Parade Bypass. The station had two platforms, with the main station buildings on the down platform. There was a signal box just to the east of the station.^[1] The main access to the station was from Warrington Street, which, before the construction of the bypass, extended to the station.^[2]

History

Opened by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, as part of the Great Central Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board.

Present day

No remains of the former station are evident, however the railway line is still open; TransPennine Express services between Liverpool/Manchester and the North East still run through the site of the old station, as does the once-weekly parliamentary service on the Stockport to Stalybridge Line. The only clue of its existence is "The Station Hotel", a pub on Warrington Street, near the former station.

References

1. http://buffetbar.i8.com/photo5.html - A selection of photographs, some showing Park Parade Station's appearance.
2. http://ashton-under-lyne.blogspot.com/2008/07/not-station.html - A blog article on the Station Inn.

Railway lines in Tameside
Legend
Oldham Lines to Oldham Oldham Lines to Saddleworth Mossley Micklehurst Loop Park Bridge Micklehurst Oldham Road Staley and Millbrook Manchester Lines North to Manchester Droylsden Stalybridge Ashton Charlestown Ashton West Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton Moss Metrolink | L&NWR Ashton Park Parade Audenshaw Dukinfield and Ashton Droylsden Dukinfield Central Cemetery Road Metrolink to Manchester Guide Bridge Hooley Hill Fairfield Manchester Lines South to Hyde Road Flowery Field Manchester Lines North to Manchester Hyde North Denton Hyde Central Stockport Lines to Stockport Newton for Hyde to Marple Godley Hattersley Broadbottom Glossop lines to Glossop & Hadfield

Coordinates: 53°29′09″N 2°05′33″W / 53.48595°N 2.09237°W