Manchester Exchange Station?

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

All you need to know:-

Disused Stations: Station

www.disused-stations.org.uk

 

[MCFCTrick]

Mayfield closed in about 1960.

That around the last time the nearby Star & Garter pub had a good clean .... true @Mad Eyed Screamer ? ;-)

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

All you need to know:-

Disused Stations: Station

www.disused-stations.org.uk

Great to see that in 1932 the trains were the same speed as they are nowadays with the fastest Manchester to Chester train taking one hour seven munutes. It shows how little our transport systems have improved in almost 100 years!

 

[Grassland Blue]

I have zero recollection of Exchange Station. Looking at it, and on maps, am I right that it was physically in Salford, not Manc?

I worked out of Manchester Victoria and the old Exchange platforms were numbered 18 & 19.
It is only a short distance from there to Salford Central station, (maybe 200yds?)
Manchester Exchange station is situated in Salford.

 

[East Level 2]

Great to see that in 1932 the trains were the same speed as they are nowadays with the fastest Manchester to Chester train taking one hour seven munutes. It shows how little our transport systems have improved in almost 100 years!

I think the tram from Victoria to Bury takes longer than the old train used to take (in the 60s), even allowing for the extra stop. - Abe Moss and Queens Road replacing Woodlands Road if you're interested.

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

By the way, Exchange had a distinctive smell all of its own, which I have never encountered anywhere else. It was a sort of mix of old fish, oil and smoke, which sounds foul but was really just distinctive. When you got off at Exchange, you knew you were home by the smell.

Could be the River or there used to be an old cemetery called Walkers Croft where thousands of Manchester and Salford residents were buried they uncovered some bodies when they were extending Victoria for the tram.
It is something we could do with now we got rid of some great station buildings in Manchester in favour of the car. Yet now you cannot drive into the City it’s all pedestrianised.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Branching out, I recommend The Railway Station: a Social History (1986), by Jeffrey Richards & J.D. Mackenzie. A complete scholarly study of stations in Britain, Europe and worldwide.

It's a long read, suitable for riding the Trans-Siberian or Cape to Cairo, or the Trans-Pennine Express.

 

[KS55]

Once we caught a train in Exchange going for the boat to Ireland, so Liverpool Lyme St must have been a destination. I was vey young so the station approach looked enormous

The old Trans Pennine used to go from Hull to Liverpool and stop at Victoria.

 

[BrianW]

Great to see that in 1932 the trains were the same speed as they are nowadays with the fastest Manchester to Chester train taking one hour seven munutes. It shows how little our transport systems have improved in almost 100 years!

Until very recently the best trains to Liverpool were far slower than the pre-WW1 service of 40 minutes (offered by three routes) or 45 with a stop. I think that with electrification they just about match it or maybe have taken a minute or two off. However, the railway is much less complicated than it used to be (fewer junctions) the signalling is much better, and there are certainly no slow goods trains in the way. How the old boys used to do it, God knows.

 

[Ducado]

I have no recollection of Exchange Station, but this thread has got me wondering just what the average is on here! I thought I was getting on a bit!