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Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Junction Railway
1912 map of railway lines in the area. Ashton Moss would have been located just below south junction.
Ashton Moss railway station was a short lived station on the Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway (OA&GB ) that served the town of Ashton-under-Lyne .
History
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The station opened on 26 August 1861 when the Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge Railway [a] Guide Bridge to Oldham Clegg Street . The station was located on Moss Lane, at the west end of the town. It had two services in each direction, one early morning, the other late evening. Only the early morning services were provided on Sundays. The station closed on 1 June 1862.[4]
Whilst most of the former OA&GB line is closed the line through the station site is still in use for freight and occasional diversions from Denton , onto the former OA&GB line through where Ashton Moss had been then taking the south to west curve onto the former GCR line towards Manchester.
On 14 April 2014, Ashton Moss North Junction signal box was closed for the last time.
Metrolink
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The name Ashton Moss is now used by a tram stop in a different location on the East Manchester Line of the Manchester Metrolink to Ashton-under-Lyne. Ashton Moss tram stop opened in 2013.[6]
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Notes
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^ The Oldham, Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge Junction Railway was the full name of the railway as defined in its enabling Act, it was often shortened by the omission of -under-Lyne and Junction .[1]
Citations
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^ "OA&GB Jct. [Ashton] - Ashton Moss South Jct. | Register of Closed Railways" . 19 January 2024. Archived from the original on 19 January 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2024 .
^ "Ashton Moss tram stop" . Transport for Greater Manchester . Retrieved 30 June 2021 .
Bibliography
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Dow, George (1959). Great Central, Volume One: The Progenitors, 1813-1863 . London: Locomotive Publishing Company. OCLC 60021205 .
Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF) . version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society . Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
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