Ashburys railway station
railway station in Ashburys, Manchester, England, UK
Ashburys railway station serves the area of Openshaw, in Greater Manchester, England. It is a stop on a junction of the Glossop Line, the Hope Valley Line and the freight line to Phillips Park Junction. It has been open since 1855 and is the nearest station to the City of Manchester Stadium.
History
The station was built and opened in 1855 by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, on its line from Manchester Store Street to Sheffield Victoria. First appearing in Bradshaw's Guide in July, it was referred to as Ashburys for Openshaw in November and then as Ashburys for Belle Vue in August 1856.
There is no place of this name near this station. It was named after the Ashbury Railway Carriage & Iron Company, which built it for £175 in 1855. This company flourished from 1841 until 1902, when it moved to Saltley in Birmingham, merging with the Metropolitan Amalgamated Railway Carriage & Wagon Company. Examples of its rolling stock survive to this day on preserved railways all over the world.
It became part of the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway following mergers in 1847, changing its name to the Great Central Railway (GCR) in 1897.
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