Fallowfield railway station

Fallowfield railway station was a railway station located on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. Today what remains of the station building is used as a public house called Remedy(formerly Bar XS), with the rest of the site taken by a a block of flats and a Sainsbury's supermarket, which curiously has the car park at the old track level, but the shop floor entrance at road level.

Fallowfield railway station was on the Fallowfield Loop railway line. [ [http://www.cycle-routes.org/fallowfieldloopline/ Friends of the Fallowfield Loop ] ] [ [http://www.southmanchesterreporter.co.uk/news/s/209/209997_turn_metrolink_into_a_cycle_path.html Turn Metrolink into a cycle path - News - South Manchester Reporter ] ] The line opened in 1892, before closing to passenger services in 1958 and finally completely in 1988. [ [http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/ewm/00features/428.html Eyewitness in Manchester - South Manchester Loop Line Walk ] ]

The line stretched from the surviving line at Fairfield and Gorton railway stations through Levenshulme South [http://www3.telus.net/public/nixonkg/railway.htm] and Fallowfield onto Wilbraham Road [ [http://www.bikerides.dsracing.me.uk/routes/ffieldLoop.htm Fallowfield Loop ] ] and Chorlton-cum-Hardy before joining a section of line from Old Trafford to Manchester Central now used by the Manchester Metrolink tram system. The section of the line from Chorlton-cum-Hardy past Fallowfield is now used as a cycle-path.

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