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Diggle railway station was a station that served the village of Diggle on the 
On 5 July 1923, an express passenger train was in a rear-end collision with a freight train. Four people were killed.
Local residents have periodically campaigned for the station to be reopened. This has often been connected to proposals to fully reopen the Disused Stations- Diggle
''Disused Stations''; Retrieved 7 January 2016
Huddersfield Line
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to the north of Uppermill
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. Immediately to the west of the Standedge tunnels, it was opened in 1849 along with the first rail tunnel and closed to passenger traffic in 1968. In its heyday, the station had platforms serving all four lines but little trace remains of it today—all of the buildings and much of platforms having been demolished (although the nearby signal box
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remains operational).
On 5 July 1923, an express passenger train was in a rear-end collision with a freight train. Four people were killed.
Local residents have periodically campaigned for the station to be reopened. This has often been connected to proposals to fully reopen the Standedge Tunnels
The Standedge Tunnels () are four parallel tunnels through the Pennine hills at the Standedge crossing between Marsden in Kirklees, West Yorkshire and Diggle in Oldham, Greater Manchester in northern England. Three are railway tunnels (con ...
.
In 2012, a renewed effort was launched by a local Liberal Democrat
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parish councillor. This was unsuccessful, as Transport for Greater Manchester
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concluded that much of the cited passenger demand would actually be abstracted from the existing station at nearby .''Disused Stations''; Retrieved 7 January 2016
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* *An Illustrated History of Oldham's Railways by John Hooper () Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Former London and North Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1968 Beeching closures in England Saddleworth 1849 establishments in England {{GreaterManchester-railstation-stub