Diggle railway station

Diggle

Site of the station in 1996
Location
Place Diggle
Area Oldham
Grid reference SE007080
Operations
Original company London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms 4
History
1 August 1849 Station opens
7 October 1968 Station closes
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Diggle railway station served the village of Diggle and was located on the Huddersfield Line to the north of Uppermill. Situated immediately to the west of the Standedge tunnels, it was opened in 1849 along with the first rail tunnel and closed to passenger traffic in 1968.[1] In its heyday, the station had platforms serving all four lines but little trace remains of it today - all of the buildings & much of platforms having been demolished (although the nearby signal box remains operational).

On 5 July 1923, an express passenger train was in a rear-end collision with a freight train. Four people were killed.[2]

In March 2012, a campaign to reopen the station was launched by a local Liberal Democrat parish councillor.[3] This proved unsuccessful, as Transport for Greater Manchester concluded that much of the cited passenger demand would actually be abstracted from the existing station at nearby Greenfield.[4]

Notes

  1. Diggle Community Association - Railways www.digglevillage.org.uk; Retrieved 20 March 2009
  2. Trevena, Arthur (1980). Trains in Trouble. Vol. 1. Redruth: Atlantic Books. p. 31. ISBN 0-906899-01-X.
  3. "Diggle Station platform for investment". Oldham Evening Chronicle. 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  4. Disused Stations- Diggle Disused Stations; Retrieved 7 January 2016

References

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Saddleworth
or Uppermill
  L&NW
Huddersfield Line
  Marsden
Line open, Station open

Coordinates: 53°34′09″N 1°59′25″W / 53.5692°N 1.9904°W / 53.5692; -1.9904


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