Dobcross railway station served the village of

Dobcross Dobcross is a village in the civil parish of the Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is in a valley in the South Pennines, along the course of the River Tame and the Huddersfield Narrow Canal, ...

between 1912 and 1955.

History

The station was opened on 1 January 1912 as part of the London and North Western Railway route from

Oldham Oldham is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham ...

Delph Delph (Old English ''(ge)delf'' a quarry) is a village in the civil parish of Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it lies amongst the Pennines on ...

. The station closed on 2 May 1955, when the

Delph Donkey The Delph Donkey was a line of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) in northern England which opened in 1849 to connect Oldham, Greenfield and Delph to the main Huddersfield to Manchester line. Route Both the Saddleworth villages of De ...

passenger train service from Oldham to Delph via Greenfield was withdrawn.

References

*An Illustrated History of Oldham's Railways by John Hooper ()

External links

Dobcross Station on navigable 1948 O.S. map
Disused railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Former London and North Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1912 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1955 1912 establishments in England 1955 disestablishments in England {{GreaterManchester-railstation-stub