Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Newton for Hyde is 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (12.1 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly station and managed by Northern Trains. [1] The station unusually features both a covered subway underneath the platforms and a larger viaduct tunnel accessible from both sides, meaning there are 2 ways to cross platforms underground.
Greater Manchester, a metropolitan county in North West England, has a public rail network of 130 route miles (209 km) and 92 National Rail stations. [1] Transport for Greater Manchester is responsible for specifying fares and service levels of train services operating in the county. [2]
The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) absorbed the Warrington and Newton company as of 31 December 1834 and from the GJR's completion of their trunk line from Birmingham on 4 July 1837 used it to access the Liverpool and Manchester line. A new "Curve" was built at Newton Junction so that trains could run towards Manchester; this gave the station a ...
A map of Manchester railway junctions and stations in 1910. One of the first inter-city railway stations in the world was Manchester Liverpool Road station on Liverpool Street. On 15 September 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened and services terminated at the station. Part of the station frontage remains, as does the goods warehouse.
Loreley (boat train) [14] Blackpool North – Manchester Piccadilly – Nottingham – Harwich Parkeston Quay: 1988 – 1992 Man of Kent [11] [58] London Charing Cross – Dover, Deal, Sandwich and Margate: 1953 – 1961 Manchester Pullman: BR / Virgin: Manchester Piccadilly – London Euston 1966 – 1990s Mancunian [31] [59] LMS / BR
Fairfield railway station serves the Fairfield area of Droylsden, Tameside, Greater Manchester and is located 3.1 miles (5 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly station.It was opened by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway in 1892, when the Fallowfield Loop to Manchester Central opened; it replaced an earlier station that had opened on the line in 1841, west of the present site.
The London and North Western Railway had running powers over the line, and from the completion of Standedge Tunnel ran express trains between Leeds and Manchester through Park station. The station was served by local trains between Huddersfield, Stalybridge and Manchester throughout its life, although from 1968 (when many other local stations ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!