High Lane railway station

Former railway station in Greater Manchester, England

High Lane railway station served the village of High Lane in Greater Manchester, England. It was a stop on the Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway.

History

It was opened in 1869 by the Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway (MB&M) - a joint line constructed and operated by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&L) and North Staffordshire Railways (NSR).

Like the other stations on the MB&M, the station buildings and signalling were provided by the NSR and train services by the MS&L.^[2]

The station closed in January 1970, along with the entirety of the MB&M. The track was lifted in the following year.

The site today

The trackbed now forms part of the Middlewood Way, a shared-use path between Macclesfield and Rose Hill Marple.^[3]

References

Notes

1. Quick (2009), p. 212.
2. Christiansen & Miller (1971), p. 200.
3. "Middlewood Way" (PDF). Cheshire East Council.

Sources

• Christiansen, Rex & Miller, Robert William (1971). The North Staffordshire Railway. Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5121- 4.
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.