Alexandra Park railway station

Wilbraham Road railway station was a station on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway line from Manchester Central via Chorlton-cum-Hardy to Fairfield and Guide Bridge. It was situated near the junction of Alexandra Road South with Mauldeth Road West. The station served the expanding Manchester residential suburbs of Whalley Range and Chorlton-cum-Hardy. The station was opened by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway on 2 May 1892 and was named Alexandra Park station. From 1 August 1897 to 1 January 1923 the station was owned by the Great Central Railway (GCR). The GCR was absorbed by the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. That company renamed the station as Wilbraham Road on 1 July...