Ashton Moss railway station

Ashton Moss Railway Station was a short lived station on the Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway (OA&GB) that served the town of Ashton-under-Lyne.

Ashton Moss
General information
LocationAshton-under-Lyne, Tameside
England
Coordinates53.48439°N 2.11367°W / 53.48439; -2.11367
Grid referenceSJ 925 986
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Opened26 August 1861 (1861-08-26)
Closed1862 (1862)
Original companyOldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway (OA&GB)
Pre-groupingOA&GB
Post-groupingOA&GB
1912 map of railway lines in the area. Ashton Moss would have been located just below south junction.

The station opened on 26 August 1861 when the Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway opened its line from Guide Bridge to Oldham Clegg Street.[lower-alpha 1] The station was located on Moss Lane, at the west end of the town. It had two services in each direction, one early morning, the other late evening. Only the early morning services were provided on Sundays.[2]

The station closed in 1862.[3]

Whilst most of the former OA&GB line is closed the line through the station site is still in use for freight and occasional diversions from Denton, onto the former OA&GB line through where Ashton Moss had been then taking the south to west curve onto the former GCR line towards Manchester.[4]

The name Ashton Moss is now used by a stop in a different location on the East Manchester Line of the Manchester Metrolink to Ashton-under-Lyne.[4][5]

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Guide Bridge   Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway
Leased jointly by L&NW & GC
  Oldham Road

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Notes

  1. The Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway was the full name of the railway as defined in its enabling Act, it was often shortened by the omission of -under-Lyne and Junction.[1]

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