Chorlton-cum-Hardy railway station

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Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Location
Location	Chorlton-cum-Hardy
Area	City of Manchester
Grid reference	SJ818941
Operations
Pre-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Platforms	?
History
1 January 1880	Opened
2 January 1967	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D-F G H-J K-L M-O P-R S T-Z
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Chorlton-cum-Hardy railway station was a station on the Cheshire Lines Committee route between Manchester Central and Stockport Tiviot Dale. It was situated near the junction of Albany Road with Wilbraham Road and served the Manchester suburb of Chorlton-cum-Hardy. The station opened on 1 January 1880 and closed on 2 January 1967, though the line remained opened to freight until the 1980s.

The station has since been demolished and in its place stands a Morrisons (originally Safeway) supermarket and car-park. The old track-way still exists to the side of the supermarket. The trackway leaving the site heading towards the old Alexandra Park railway station and Fallowfield railway station is now a cyclepath managed by Sustrans.

There is a proposal to extend Manchester Metrolink through Chorlton-cum-Hardy, with the Chorlton-cum-Hardy stop occupying the site of the former train station^[1]. This extension would replace most, if not all, of the existing cycle path.

The station was mentioned in the 1964 song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

[edit] External links

• http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/
• http://www.thesectionalappendix.co.uk/MIDTMCEN01.html
• Map of the station area at SJ 818 941

Coordinates: 53.444° N 2.273° W

[edit] References

• The Directory of Railway Stations, R.V.J.Butt, PSL, 1995, ISBN 1 85260 508 1

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