Clayton Bridge railway station

Clayton Bridge railway station, Manchester, was a railway station that served the locality between 1846 and 1968. The station was built by the Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Junction Railway and opened on 13 April 1846. The Manchester & Leeds Railway took over the running on 9 July 1847, on which day the latter company changed its name to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway (LYR). The LYR operated the station for the next 75 years before it was absorbed into the London & North Western Railway on 1 January 1922 and the joint company became a major constituent of the London Midland & Scottish Railway in 1923. The station was situated immediately west of where the line crossed Berry Brow in Clayton Bridge near Clayton Vale in Clayton,...