Northenden railway station

Northenden
Northenden station in 1954, looking east, showing the station building and signal box (in the background)
Location
Place	Northenden
Area	Manchester
Coordinates	53°23′55″N 2°15′11″W / 53.3986°N 2.2531°W / 53.3986; -2.2531Coordinates: 53°23′55″N 2°15′11″W / 53.3986°N 2.2531°W / 53.3986; -2.2531
Grid reference	SJ832891
Operations
Original company
Pre-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Post-grouping	Cheshire Lines Committee
Platforms	2
History
1 February 1866	station opens
30 November 1964	station closes
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Northenden railway station was located in the southern part of Manchester, England. It was built by the (ST&AJ) and was opened for both passenger and goods traffic on 1 February 1866.

From 15 August 1867 the ST&AJ became part of the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC). From 1 January 1923 the CLC was jointly owned by the London and North Eastern Railway (two-thirds ownership) and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (one-third ownership). However, the CLC continued to retain its separate identity and management.

Some official railway timetables described the station as Northenden for Wythenshawe because the station lay between and served the two districts. It was situated between the road overbridges at Sharston Road and Longley Lane.

The main brick-built station building was constructed to a typical Cheshire Lines Committee design with steeply sloping roofs and decorative wooden barge boarding. It contained the booking office, passenger waiting room, parcels office, toilet facilities and the station master's accommodation. Until the 1890s a telegraph office, available to send public messages, was located in the station building.

The main building was located on the north side (nearest to Northenden village) of the twin railway tracks and served the passenger trains travelling eastwards from Liverpool and Warrington towards Stockport.

On the south side of the line was a smaller brick-built waiting room for passengers, which was reached from the station's eastern end by a boarded railway crossing for both passengers and staff to use with care. This platform served passenger trains from Stockport travelling westwards towards Warrington and Liverpool.

Northenden Junction signal box is located 200 yards (183 metres) to the east of where the main station buildings were, on the north side of the line, adjoining Longley Lane. The signal box was built using CLC's standard dark brick construction and utilised an unusually tall design, which had been made sufficiently high to enable the signalman on duty to readily see over the Longley Lane road bridge over the line and on to Northenden Junction, 200 yards (183 m) away to the east, where the London & North Western Railway's line from joined the Cheshire Lines Committee line from . The signal box controlled sets of signals protecting the junction and also operated the powered railway switching points.