Station Name: MANLEY

 

[Source: Paul Wright]


Date opened: 22.6.1870
Location: South side of Manley Lane
Company on opening: Cheshire Lines Committee
Date closed to passengers: 1.5.1875
Date closed completely: 6.3.1961
Company on closing: Cheshire Lines Committee
Present state: Station building still extant and in use as a private dwelling
County: Cheshire
OS Grid Ref: SJ496718
Date of visit: 12.11.2005

Notes: Situated on the CLC Mouldsworth to Helsby Junction line which was opened by the CLC on 01/09/1869 to give access to the Birkenhead Dock system via the Birkenhead Joint Railway. The station was located on an embankment and although the building was of a robust stone construction it seems likely that the platform which has not survived was a timber affair. Today a door appears to lead out into thin air marks the original platform height.

The line on which it stood remained busy with oil traffic from the nearby Stanlow Refinery until the early 1990s. The oil industry had invested heavily in pipelines and so by the 1990s rail traffic became scarce. The line remained mothballed throughout the 1990's and was lifted shortly after the millennium.

Today the station can be seen from the Dunham Heath to Manley road and it is in use as a private dwelling.

See also Helsby & Alvanley Station

 

The station building at Manley in November 2005. The platform would have been in front of this building
P
hoto by Paul Wright

1881 Ordnance Survey map



Manley Station building in November 20905. Note the high level entrance that would have opened onto the platform.
P
hoto by Paul Wright


 

 

 

[Source: Paul Wright]


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