Wardleworth railway station served the township of

Wardleworth Wardleworth was a township at the geographic centre of the Parish of Rochdale, in Salford Hundred, Lancashire, England. The principal estate of the township was Buckley. Though the administrative territory has long been abolished, the name cont ...

in Rochdale, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, England, from 1870 until closure in 1947. It was on the Facit Branch between Rochdale and Facit, which was extended to Bacup in 1881. The station was quite well placed for Rochdale town centre and so, in addition to the branch trains, a few other services from Manchester terminated here. Between here and Rochdale station was the

Roch Valley Viaduct Roch Valley Viaduct was a viaduct built in the 1860s in Rochdale, historically in Lancashire, now within Greater Manchester, that carried the Rochdale to Bacup railway line between Rochdale and Wardleworth stations. It was demolished in 1972 ...

, now demolished.

References

*Lost Railways of Lancashire by Gordon Suggitt () Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1870 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1947 {{GreaterManchester-railstation-stub