Pendlebury
Pendlebury railway station in 1897
General information
Location	Pendlebury,City of Salford England
Coordinates	53°30′43″N2°19′14″W / 53.511984°N 2.320476°W /53.511984; -2.320476
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
13 June 1887 (1887-06-13)	Opened
3 October 1960 (1960-10-03)	Closed
Location

Pendlebury railway station was a station serving the town ofPendlebury in theCity of Salford,Greater Manchester, England. It was closed in 1960 byBritish Railways.

The station started life as part of theLancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Pendleton and Hindley line that grew into (and still exists today as) theManchester Victoria toWigan Wallgate line. Heading fromManchester towardsWigan, the preceding station was atIrlams o' th' Height (closed in 1956), and the following station was atSwinton (still open). Pendlebury station was closed in 1960.^[1][2] The existing lines still widen where the island platform existed (removed in 1978). By 1922, ownership had passed from theLancashire and Yorkshire Railway, to theLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway, and uponnationalisation in 1948 it became property ofBritish Railways.

It was located on Bolton Road (A666), oppositeSt. Augustine's Church and the former (appropriately named) Station Hotel pub which is nowadays theTrattoriaItalian restaurant. The railway station was about 760 yards east of the present-daySwinton railway station. The station was located just before the entrance to a tunnel underneath Bolton Road. From the site of the station the tunnel goes as far as Swinton Hall Road where it comes out and into a cutting on its way towards Swinton. A 1909Ordnance Survey map shows no buildings on top of the tunnel's location, suggesting that it was not stable to be built upon at this time. In theBlack Harry Tunnel collapse of 1953, part of the tunnel collapsed. Two houses fell into the resultant large void in Temple Drive, Swinton. Five people in the houses were killed.^[3]

TheSwinton and Pendlebury Journal of 7 October 1960 reported that the last train to call at Pendlebury railway station was the 23:21 fromManchester Victoria toWigan on the previous Saturday (1 October 1960) - there were 6 people aboard one of whom was a 37-year-old shopkeeper Mr Jackson, proprietor of 419Chorley Road,Swinton. Mr Jackson reportedly bought the last ticket ever issued at Pendlebury station from the porter Mr D. White - a single toSwinton. Mr Jackson also reportedly travelled toIrlams o' th' Height on 3 March 1956 to purchase the last ticket issued there. A pub, the Station Hotel, was located on the opposite side of the road. The building still exists but has been refurbished into theTrattoriaItalian restaurant. Some of the yellow brickwork of the station is still visible onBolton Road.

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The layout was four tracks wide, with an island platform serving two of the tracks being connected to Bolton Road via a footbridge. Several sets of points lay at the eastern end of the station. TheClifton Hall Tunnel (sometimes called theBlack Harry Tunnel), part of theLondon and North Western Railway's Clifton Branch, ran underneath the eastern end of the station. There is a sign at the eastern end of the old platforms indicating to railway workers where the line of the old tunnel is.^{[citation needed]}

The artistL.S. Lowry lived at 117 Station Road (B5231), Pendlebury, about a mile from the station. Lowry recalled an inspirational moment at the station which transformed his view of the industrial landscape around him:

One day I missed a train from Pendlebury – [a place] I had ignored for seven years – and as I left the station I saw the Acme Spinning Company's mill… The huge black framework of rows of yellow-lit windows standing up against the sad, damp charged afternoon sky. The mill was turning out… I watched this scene — which I'd looked at many times without seeing — with rapture…

This experience led Lowry to incorporate elements of local textile mills and factory chimneys into many of his works, and elements of theAcme Mill can be seen in two of his iconic paintings:Coming from the Mill (1930) andThe Mill, Pendlebury (1941).^[4][5][6]

In 1953, Lowry paintedThe Railway Platform, anoil on canvas depicting a scene of railway passengers standing on the platform at Pendlebury station. The painting was auctioned in 2015 for £1.6 million.^[7]

Lowry was filmed at Pendlebury station in documentary films made in the late 1950s, including a 1957BBC documentary produced byJohn Read.^[8]

• Disused railway stations in Salford
• Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1888
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960

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