Disused Stations: Manchester Exchange Station

[Source: Paul Wright]

Date opened:	30.6.1884
Location:	On the north side of Salford Approach
Company on opening:	London & North Western Railway
Date closed to passengers:	5.5.1969
Date closed completely:	5.5.1969
Company on closing:	British Railways (London Midland Region)
Present state:	Station approach road, part of the platforms and footbridge still extant
County:	Lancashire
OS Grid Ref:	SJ837988
Date of visit:	5.11.2005

Notes: Manchester Exchange was opened by the LNWR in 1884 as its arrangements to use the nearby LYR Manchester Victoria Station were not satisfactory.

In 1929 the LMS linked Manchester Exchange and Manchester Victoria by the famous platform 11 which became at 2,194 feet the longest platform in the UK.

Exchange Station catered for express and local services on the Liverpool to Manchester via Earlestown line as well as offering services to North Wales. Trans Pennine express services used Exchange right up until closure which came as a decline in traffic in the 1960s left enough capacity at Victoria. Exchange closed on 1960 but its overall roof and platforms survived up until the early 1980's.

Its platforms and step bridge can still be seen today.

The remains of the unusually long Platform 11 in October 2005
Photo by Paul Wright

Ex-L.N.E.R. A4 pacific No. 4498, 'Sir Nigel Gresley' at Manchester Exchange Station
Copyright photo by David Birchal from his Photographic Gallery Images for the Publishing Industry

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Station Name: MANCHESTER EXCHANGE