High Lane railway station

53°22′04″N 2°05′06″W / 53.3677°N 2.0851°W / 53.3677; -2.0851Grid referenceSJ944856Platforms2Other informationStatusDisusedHistoryOriginal companyMacclesfield, Bollington and Marple RailwayPre-groupingMacclesfield Committee of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and North Staffordshire RailwaysPost-groupingGroup Committee No. 1 of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern RailwaysKey dates2 August 1869 (1869-08-02)Opened^[1]5 January 1970 (1970-01-05)Closed^[1]

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

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.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Rose Hill Marple		Great Central Railway & North Staffordshire Railway Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway		Middlewood Higher