Mayfield station manchester 7/2009

[OLDSKOOL2]

Visited this site back in the summer of 2009 this was my first explore a little history then the pictures....
Manchester Mayfield is a former railway station in Manchester, England. It is located on the south side of Fairfield Street, next to Manchester Piccadilly station.
Opened on 8 August 1910 by the London & North Western Railway Manchester Mayfield was built alongside Manchester London Road station (later Piccadilly) to handle the increased number of trains and passengers following the opening of the Styal Line in 1909. It was connected to London Road via a high-level footbridge. It was mainly used by suburban services to the south of Manchester, but a number of main line services used it during busy periods.

Mayfield suffered the effects of bombing during World War II, when it was hit by a land mine (parachute mine). It came into its own for a brief period during the electrification and modernisation of what was to become Piccadilly Station in the late 1950s, when many services were diverted to it after a restoration of sorts. It was closed to passengers on 28 August 1960.
The site was converted into a parcels depot which opened on 6 July 1970. Royal Mail constructed a sorting office on the opposite side of the main line and connected it to Mayfield with an overhead conveyor bridge which crosses the throat of Piccadilly Station. The depot closed in 1986 following the decision by Parcelforce, Royal Mail's parcels division, to abandon rail transport in favour of road haulage. The building has remained disused ever since, with the tracks into Mayfield removed in 1989 as part of the remodelling of the Piccadilly Station layout. The sorting office was briefly reused as an indoor karting track, but has now been rebuilt as prestige offices; the parcel conveyor bridge was removed in 2003.

 

[Foxylady]

Oh, I like this. There's something a bit magic about these huge deserted stations, methinks...especially as nature begins to reclaim them. Good stuff.

 

[Judderman62]

looks an interesting place does that. nice pics

 

[Trinpaul]

Oh, I like this. There's something a bit magic about these huge deserted stations, methinks...especially as nature begins to reclaim them. Good stuff.

Love old train stations is there anything on the cards regarding future plans for the site?

 

[shakey]

oooo......
that station, looks fan-tabby-tastic
That station opened up the rehlems or the LNWR (London & North Western Railway) it closed to the passengers on the 23rd of August 1960 under British Railways (London Midland Region). It is currently mostly extant and unused with the trainshed intact. The roadside building was gutted by fire in the summer of 2005.

There aren't many plans with the current station and it is still effectively owned by British Railways, but in reality it is really owned by Network Rail, who own most the countries tracks and facilities (but they dont run any revenue earning trains <apart from there wagon hiring department> they also run track inspection trains and weed killing trains). Manchester Piccadilly Station (formerly London Road) is currently running out of capacity so there have been proposals to reopen Mayfield Station. It will either be as terminus, as it was before, or lines will be extended through the station and join up with the existing line to Oxford Road.