Belle Vue railway station

Belle Vue railway station serves Gorton and Belle Vue in Manchester. It was built by the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee in 1875, on the line between New Mills and Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly). A joint venture of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and the Midland Railway, it was a shorter route than the already existing one through Hyde Junction, and was used by the latter's main line expresses from London until 1880, when they began running via Stockport Tiviot Dale into Manchester Central It was popular with visitors to Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, set up by John Jennison in 1836. After their closure in the early 1980s, usage of the station plummeted. All that remains of the original...