Grasscroft railway station served the village of
Grasscroft
Grasscroft is a village in the civil parish of Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The village has two notable residents - former Mancheste ...
between 1912 and 1955.
History
The station opened on 1 January 1912,
on 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 ...
to
Greenfield. It was located not far from the portal of Lydgate Tunnel. It closed temporarily on 16 July 1917, reopening on 1 January 1919.
The station closed permanently 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 to via
Greenfield was withdrawn.
References
*An Illustrated History of Oldham's Railways by John Hooper ()
External links
Grasscroft 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 1917
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1919
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1955
1912 establishments in England
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