Heywood railway station

For the closed railway station in Australia, see Heywood railway station, Victoria. For the heritage railway station in Gloucestershire, see Heywood (Perrygrove Railway) railway station.

Heywood
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Location
Place	Heywood
Area	Rochdale
Coordinates
Grid reference	SD863102
Operations
Managed by	East Lancashire Railway
Platforms	1
History
1841	Original station opened
5 October 1970	Closed
06 September 2003	Current station opened
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Heywood railway station serves the town of Heywood in Greater Manchester, England. The original station was opened on the national rail network in 1841 (by the Manchester and Leeds Railway) and closed on 5 October 1970. It re-opened on 6 September 2003 as an extension of the East Lancashire Railway from Bury Bolton Street. The boundary between the ELR and the national rail network is located a short distance east of the station, at Hopwood.

£300 million had been pledged to link Heywood back to the National Rail Network in 2009, which would have seen services direct to Manchester via Castleton, but this scheme was subsequently shelved due to lack of funding. The ELR still has ambitions to run trains through to Castleton though to allow direct interchange with National Rail services there. This would form part of a larger scheme to regenerate the area and create additional tourist attractions such as a proposed Heywood Culture Park.

The original station was situated immediately opposite the terminal wharf of the Heywood Branch Canal. The East Lancashire Railway station is situated slightly further to the east, nearer to the former Heywood railway wagon works.

Further reading

• The Manchester and Leeds Railway by Martin Bairstow

External links

Railways in Rochdale (Past, Present and Future)
Legend
To Bacup To Calderdale Broadley Littleborough Shawclough and Healey Wardleworth Smithy Bridge Rochdale Town Centre Rochdale Newbold Kingsway Business Park To Bury Milnrow Broadfield Newhey To Oldham Heywood Castleton Middleton Mills Hill To Manchester

• Transport & Travel on Road, Canal & Railway
• The Castleton and Heywood Masterplan Study by Mouchel & Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council to develop tourism potential of the two areas.

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Terminus		East Lancashire Railway		Bury Bolton Street
	Historical railways
Castleton Line closed, station open		Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Manchester and Leeds Railway		Broadfield Line open, station closed
Middleton Junction Line and station closed
	Proposed Heritage railways
Castleton Line closed, station open		East Lancashire Railway		Bury Bolton Street Line and station open