Royton railway station served the town of

Royton Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 21,284 in 2011. Close to the source of the River Irk, near undulating land at the foothills of the South Pennines, it is northwest of Old ...

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. It opened on 21 March 1864, and was at the end of a short branch line from

Royton Junction railway station Royton Junction railway station was a station on the Oldham Loop Line in Greater Manchester, England. It opened on 1 July 1864, and was the junction for the short branch line to Royton railway station. The line to Royton was closed to goods on ...

on the

Oldham Loop Line The Oldham Loop Line was a local railway route in Greater Manchester, England, used by trains that ran from Manchester Victoria to Rochdale via Oldham Mumps. Services on the line at the time of its closure were operated by Northern Rail. The l ...

. Royton closed to goods services on 2 November 1964, and to passenger services on 16 April 1966.

Accidents

Two serious accidents occurred at Royton station. The first was on 31 October 1908. A goods train from Aintree ran out of control on the gradient between Royton Junction and Royton station. It crashed into an empty train at Royton. The fireman of the goods train was killed, and the driver severely injured. The second was at around 6:12 am on 8 February 1961 when the driver of a diesel multiple-unit passenger train lost control on the gradient down to Royton station. The train was being run empty, although there was one railway employee on board as a passenger. Neither the passenger nor the train guard was injured. The driver of the train was slightly injured when he leapt from the cab of the train just before it collided with the buffer stop at Royton. The train came to rest 30 yards beyond the buffer stop, crossing High Barn Street and crashing into some houses. Three houses were slightly damaged, and two severely damaged. No fatal or severe injuries occurred in the latter two, for one of them was a lock-up shop, and in the other the occupants were upstairs at the time. However, five people from the damaged houses were taken to hospital suffering from shock and bruises, and in one case also a fractured

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. All were eventually discharged.

References

External links

British Railways in 1960 - Royton Jn to Royton

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