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Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-Book for Travellers in Belgium, 1856 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1891 Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland, 1882. Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London.
Former British politician Michael Portillo used a copy of what was described as a Bradshaw's guide (the 1863 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland) for Great British Railway Journeys, a BBC Two television series in which he travelled across Britain, visiting recommended points of interest noted in Bradshaw's guide book, and where possible staying in ...
The station was opened on 3 July 1863 by the Great Eastern Railway.It was situated on the west side of the road leading to Mardocks Farm. It was known as Mardocks in RCH handbook and Mardock for Wakeside in the 1882 Great Eastern Railway timetable as well as the 1880s editions of Bradshaw.
Portrait of George Bradshaw is an 1841 portrait painting by the British artist Richard Evans of the English cartographer and publisher George Bradshaw. [1] [2] Bradshaw is best known for publishing Bradshaw's Guide which featured timetables, maps and travel guides for Britain's railway network which was rapidly expanding during the Industrial Revolution.
Quick (2022) reports that at first the station was called "a glorious mixture of Staleybridge, Staley Bridge, Stalybridge and Staly Bridge" in the various published timetables with Bradshaw's Handbook finally settling on the Stalybridge version in 1890.
The station first appeared Bradshaw in January 1863 and was opened by the Monkland Railways.It had a lot of different names; it was known as Blackstone Junction in the Monkland Railways timetable on 1 March 1865, it was renamed from Blackston to Blackston Junction in the 1866 North British Railway timetables, renamed Blackston in Bradshaw in 1890, Blackstone in the 1883 and Blackston in the ...
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The station was located shortly after a branch to the north off the main Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) that the OA&GB had to cross. It was in a cutting on the east side of Oldham Road, which crossed the railway on an overbridge, there were two platforms connected by a footbridge, with single storey station buildings containing a booking office, ladies room, general waiting room ...