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Clifton (Manchester) railway station

Clifton National Rail
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The ramp leading to the southbound platform
Location
Place Clifton
Local authority Salford
Coordinates 53°31′20″N 2°18′51″W / 53.5223°N 2.3141°W / 53.5223; -2.3141Coordinates: 53°31′20″N 2°18′51″W / 53.5223°N 2.3141°W / 53.5223; -2.3141
Grid reference SD793028
Operations
Station code CLI
Managed by Northern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2011/12 Increase 498
2012/13 Decrease 334
2013/14 Decrease 298
2014/15 Decrease 152
2015/16 Decrease 116
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Transport for Greater Manchester
History
Original company East Lancashire Railway
Pre-grouping Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
June 1847 Opened as Clifton Junction
6 May 1974 Renamed Clifton
National RailUK railway stations
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Clifton from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Clifton railway station is a railway station in Clifton, Greater Manchester, England which was formerly called Clifton Junction. It lies on the Manchester to Preston Line.

The railway line between Salford and Bolton, the Manchester and Bolton Railway (M&BR), opened in 1838, but had no stations between Agecroft Bridge and Ringley. In 1844, the Manchester, Bury and Rossendale Railway (MB&RR) was authorised to build a line from a junction with the M&BR at Clifton, to Rawtenstall. It opened to the public on 28 September 1846, by which time the MB&RR had amalgamated with other companies to become the East Lancashire Railway, and the M&BR had itself amalgamated with the Manchester and Leeds Railway; the M&LR became the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1847.

The Bury line ran northward from the junction, crossing the Irwell Valley on Clifton Viaduct (known locally as the "13 arches"), to run on the opposite side of the valley to the Bolton line. A station at the junction, with two platforms for each route (Bolton or Bury), opened in June 1847, and was named Clifton Junction.

The line to Bury closed in 1966, but (as of October 2013) the viaduct remains a Grade II listed local landmark.


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