Bollington railway station

Former railway station in Cheshire, England

53°17′36″N 2°06′29″W / 53.2934°N 2.1080°W / 53.2934; -2.1080Grid referenceSJ929773Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyMacclesfield, Bollington and Marple RailwayPre-groupingMacclesfield Committee of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and North Staffordshire RailwaysPost-groupingGroup Committee No. 1 of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern RailwaysKey dates2 August 1869 (1869-08-02)Opened^[1]5 January 1970 (1970-01-05)Closed^[1]

Bollington railway station was a railway station serving the town of Bollington in Cheshire, England. It was opened in 1869 by the Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway (MB&M) - a joint line constructed and operated by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&L) and North Staffordshire Railways (NSR). The passenger station was on the north side of Grimshaw Lane, with a goods yard on the south side.

Initially services ran between Macclesfield and Marple,^[2] but this was soon extended so that direct trains ran between Macclesfield and Manchester London Road.^[3] A number of additional services were supplied between Bollington and Macclesfield, as a significant number of Macclesfield workers lived in Bollington. In 1921, there were 14 additional shuttle services between the two towns using a petrol railcar purchased by the Great Central Railway (GCR) (successor to the MS&L) and nicknamed the "Bollington Bug".^[4] The Bug was replaced in 1935 by a Sentinel steam railcar that ran the shuttle service, until it was withdrawn at the start of 1939.^[5]

The station buildings were built to NSR designs, as were most other structures on the MB&M,^[6] while most train services were operated by the MS&L and later the GCR.^[7] An exception to this being the NSR Summer Saturday services between Macclesfield and Buxton.^[7]

The station closed in January 1970, along with the line between Macclesfield and Marple; the buildings were demolished and the track was lifted by the end of 1971.^[8] The trackbed now forms part of the Middlewood Way, a recreational path between Macclesfield and Marple. Part of the goods station site provides a car park for the path.^[9]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b Quick (2009), p. 92.
^ Jeuda (1983), p. 12.
^ Jeuda (1983), p. 17.
^ Jeuda (1983), p. 34.
^ Jeuda (1983), p. 40.
^ Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 87.
^ ^a ^b Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 200.
^ Jeuda (1983), p. 54.
^ "Middlewood Way" (PDF). Cheshire East Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

Sources

Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5121-4.
Jeuda, Basil (1983). The Macclesfield, Bollington & Marple Railway: The Great Central and North Staffordshire Joint Railway. Eaton Press. ISBN 0904532-04-6.
Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.