Lees railway station opened on 5 July 1856 at Lees, Lancashire, when the London and North Western Railway (L&NWR) opened the branch from Greenfield to Oldham.[1][2]
Lees | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Oldham England |
| Coordinates | 53°32′23″N 2°04′09″W / 53.5396°N 2.0693°W |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Status | Disused |
| History | |
| Opened | 5 July 1856 |
| Closed | 2 May 1955 |
| Original company | London and North Western Railway |
| Pre-grouping | London and North Western Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| Key dates | |
| 2 May 1955 | Closed to passengers |
| 16 December 1963 | Closed to goods traffic |
| 13 April 1964 | Line closed |
The station was located to the south-east of St. John Street, where it crossed the railway. There were two running lines with platforms on the outer sides connected by a footbridge. The main building was to the south of the line and was accessed by a ramp running down from the road over-bridge.[3] To the south east of the station was a goods yard with a goods shed and between the station and the goods shed was a coal depôt. The goods yard was able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock and was equipped with a ten ton crane.[3][4]
Services Initially services ran to Oldham Mumps (L&NWR) and to Greenfield with some of these continuing to Delph. From 1 July 1862 trains were extended from Oldham Mumps to Oldham Clegg Street, later that year the L&NWR closed its Mumps station replacing it with Oldham Glodwick Road.[5][6]
By 1866 the station saw fourteen services in each direction (four on Sundays) of which three continued to Delph (none on Sundays).[7] By 1922 the number of services had increased to about thirty-nine each way (there was some variation on Saturdays) of which eighteen continued to Delph (none on Sundays).[8] In 1939 the LMS service was about the same with around thirty-eight services each way, with even more variation on Saturdays, twenty-one of which continued to Delph (except on Sundays).[9]
The station closed to passengers on 2 May 1955, when the Delph Donkey passenger train service to Delph via Greenfield was withdrawn.[2][10] The station closed to goods traffic on 16 December 1963.[11] The line remained open until 13 April 1964.[12]
Not far from the station, to the north east, was Lees Engine Shed which was open from 1878 to April 1964.[11]
Currently the line is a cyclepath and there is no evidence of the station remaining.[13][14]
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| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Oldham Glodwick Road | L&NW Delph Donkey |
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References edit
Citations edit
- ^ "Opening of the new Railway to Greenfield". The Manchester Guardian (1828-1900). 7 July 1856. p. 3. ProQuest 473916112.
- ^ a b Quick 2022, p. 277.
- ^ a b "Ordnance Survey 25 inch map Lancashire XCVII.7". National Library of Scotland. 1894. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ The Railway Clearing House 1970, p. 29.
- ^ Reed 1996, p. 60.
- ^ Brown 2021, p. 91.
- ^ Bradshaw 1866, pp. tables 118 & 119.
- ^ Bradshaw 1985, p. 484.
- ^ LMS Railway 1939, p. table 150.
- ^ Hurst 1992, p. 10 (ref 0453).
- ^ a b Brown 2021, p. 92.
- ^ Hurst 1992, p. 25 (ref 1272).
- ^ "Oldham Cycle Network" (PDF). Visit Oldham. Cycle GM. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ Allsop, Stuart. "View of former Lees station". Google Maps. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
Bibliography edit
- Bradshaw, George (1866). Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, for Great Britain and Ireland. Liverpool: Bradshaw & Blacklock.
- Bradshaw, George (1985) [July 1922]. Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland: A reprint of the July 1922 issue. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8708-5. OCLC 12500436.
- Brown, Joe (2021). Liverpool & Manchester Railway Atlas. Manchester: Crécy Publishing. ISBN 9780860936879. OCLC 1112373294.
- Hurst, Geoffrey (1992). Register of Closed Railways: 1948-1991. Worksop, Nottinghamshire: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-9477-9618-5.
- LMS Railway (1939). London Midland & Scottish Passenger Railway Timetable- July 3rd to September 24th, inclusive, 1939. London: LMS.
- Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
- Reed, Malcolm C. (1996). The London & North Western Railway: A History. Atlantic Transport. ISBN 978-0-906899-66-3.
- The Railway Clearing House (1970) [1904]. The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904 (1970 D&C Reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles Reprints. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.
Further reading edit
- Hooper, John (2006). An Illustrated History of Oldham's Railways. Irwell Press. ISBN 9781871608199.
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