Stalybridge station then and now 001.mov

Pictures of Stalybridge station of how it used to look compared to how it looks today. Before, it was a junction station being used originally by three companies, the LYR (they had their own seperate station - as seen in the first photo - before the station complex expanded), the MS&LR and the LNWR. It was later used by the GCR, LMS and LNER. The updated pictures show how Stalybridge has changed rapidly since the 60s....and not for the better. The through lines, completely taken up by the late 80s - early 90s, could have been kept to let the through express go through unhindered leaving the platforms clear for the stopping trains.

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• Train
• Stalybridge
• Steam
• railway
• DMU
• turbo
• train
• express
• loop
• line
• LYR
• MS
• LR
• GCR
• LNER
• LMS
• LNWR
• BR

[Kittielips]

Thank you for the nostalgia.

I wept when Ashton Market Hall 'died.'

Gone, but never forgotten.

5*****.

Jennie.

[LMSStanier]

You're welcome Jennie. Hopefully the Ashton Market will be built pretty much as it was before, unlike Oldham's inside market.

[khankadet]

Hi David, Needs to be more of this stuff about. When I'm out and about I often get chatting to "locals" who, after the initial "Are you waiting for something special?", are happy to wait and talk about what is was like in "the old days".

Holywell "Junction?" - look you can just see the trackbed where it came out of the bay platform - curves up round over the main road (so steep I'd thought it was a mineral railway) - that children's home is the station building. Thanks for sharing - Chris

[LMSStanier]

Thanks Chris. It's a shame when something like this disappears in the name of "progres" but it's equally interesting finding out about what existed before and hearing old stories of how things used to be.

[60103Henry]

Great Video, Does Stalybridge  Station have ticket barriers?

[LMSStanier]

Thanks. The station doesn't have ticket barriers though there is a ticket office. There are rail personnel at the station during the day but I think it's closed at night time. They are refurbishing the ticket office area so barriers might be introduced. I've also heard that they've not got planning permission to do the refurbishments to the ticket office area but have gone ahead anyway.

[Woolybak8]

Again marvellous Archives Mr. Stanier, I like videos like this that show the stations in the past, and then followed by what they look like now, 5* and faviorited.

[Woolybak8]

Ooh yes, nice to see the clock still there, but an old walkover there, shame its an underpass now though

[Kittielips]

I hope you're right. Ashton Market had a character all of it's own; whereas Oldham Market is just an 'inanimate object.'

Thank you.

Jennie.

[60103Henry]

ok, thansk for that info!

[LMSStanier]

They had to put the underpass in as the station has had it's fair share of accidents and fatalites with the walkover in the past. The station, being an even busier station than today, got a bad rep through it.