Ardwick railway station

Ardwick railway station serves Ardwick in Manchester, England. It is about one mile (1.5 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly. It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1842. Opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, it became part of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway during mergers in 1847. That company changed its name to the Great Central Railway in 1897. The station became a meeting point of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923, and passed to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. When British Rail brand names were introduced in the 1980s, the station...