Macclesfield (MB&M) railway station

Macclesfield
Location
Place	Macclesfield
Area	Cheshire East
Coordinates	53°15′51″N 2°07′23″W / 53.2641°N 2.1230°W / 53.2641; -2.1230Coordinates: 53°15′51″N 2°07′23″W / 53.2641°N 2.1230°W / 53.2641; -2.1230
Grid reference	SJ918741
Operations
Original company	Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway
Pre-grouping	Macclesfield Committee of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and North Staffordshire Railways
Post-grouping	Group Committee No. 1 of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and London and North Eastern Railways
Platforms	2
History
2 August 1869 (1869-08-02)	Opened[1]
1 July 1873 (1873-07-01)	Closed[1]
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Macclesfield (MB&M) railway station was a short lived railway station serving the town of Macclesfield in Cheshire, England. It was opened in 1869 by the Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway (MB&M) - a joint line constructed and operated by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&L) and North Staffordshire Railways (NSR) - and closed in 1873.

The MB&M was built with the intention of connecting to the main London and North Western Railway (LNWR) / NSR line between Manchester and Stoke however there were numerous difficulties to be overcome; the route through town, the reluctance of the local authority to allow the railway to bridge over the River Bollin and the lack of co-operation from the LNWR to agree to a site for a station on the Manchester - Stoke line.^[2] The board of the MB&M therefore decided to open a temporary station on land they already owned to allow services to commence. The station, known simply as Macclesfield, opened on 2 August 1869 and was the southern terminus of the line.^[3] From there passengers made a short walk to the joint LNWR/NSR station at Macclesfield Hibel Road to catch services to and from the south.

Four years elapsed before a route for the line through the town was constructed and a new joint NSR/MS&L station at Macclesfield Central built. The new Central station opened on 1 July 1873 and the old station closed the same day.^[4] Following closure the old station buildings were used as stables for the horses working in the MB&M goods yard until the buildings were demolished in 1947.^[4] In 1919 they had seen temporary use, once again, as a passenger station when rebuildng work of the section of line to Central station was undertaken.^[4]

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Sources

• Jeuda, Basil (1983). The Macclesfield, Bollington & Marple Railway: The Great Central and North Staffordshire Joint Railway. Eaton Press. ISBN 0904532 04 6. 
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.