Pendleton railway station (Manchester to Southport Line)

:"For the disused station in Pendleton, Greater Manchester, on the Manchester to Preston line, see Pendleton Bridge station (Manchester to Preston Line)Infobox UK disused station| name = Pendleton|

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caption = Pendleton railway station in 1989| manager = L&YR| locale = Salford| borough = City of Salford| platforms = 2| years1 = 1994| events1 = Vandalised
years2 =1998
events2 = Closed

Pendleton Railway Station (New) was a station serving Pendleton, a district of Salford. It was located on Broughton Road (A576) just behind St. Thomas' Church (Pendleton Church). It was about 100 yards further up Broughton Road and nearer Pendleton Church from the earlier built Pendleton (Old) Railway Station and was on the Manchester Victoria to Wigan Wallgate line.

History

Until the 1980's Pendleton was one of the more important stations on the Bolton-Manchester line, one of only two stations with a Sunday service. The nearby Salford Crescent railway station, which opened in 1987, however, took much of the passenger traffic away from Pendleton station, sending it into terminal declinecite web|url=http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.5546|title=Regulator allows closure of Pendleton station|date=1998-12-15|accessdate=2008-03-27|publisher=Office of Rail Regulation] . An arson attack in July 1994 led to the station being closed temporarily by GMPTE, though by this time it was only being served by 4 trains each day. Final closure came in 1998 after it was deemed that repairing the damage caused by the vandalism would not represent good value for money:"...The Franchising Director advertised the closure and, in assessing the impact of the closure the RUCC for North Western England concluded (on 6 May 1998) that no hardship would result from closure as no trains had called at Pendleton for four years." , despite campaigns for it to be re-opened by Salford Councilcite web|url=http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/1996/1/26/860340.html|date=1996-01-26|work=Bolton Evening News|accessdate=2008-03-27|title=Announcing a station revival?] in 1996.

Close to the station was a locomotive shed and sidings.

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