Windsor Bridge railway station served the suburb of Pendleton, historically in Lancashire, England, from 1838 to 1856 on the Manchester and Bolton Railway. On the 1848 OS map, Windsor Bridge is where The Crescent crosses the railway. Today, this is the site of Salford Crescent station.
The station was opened on 29 May 1838 by the Manchester and Bolton Railway. Its services were reduced to Wednesdays only in December 1842 and it closed in October 1846. It reopened in January 1855, only to permanently close in June 1856.[1][2]
AccidentsEdit
An accident occurred on 16 October 1839 when an engineer fell off a train before it reached the station.[2]
ReferencesEdit
^Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 252. ISBN1-85260-508-1. R508.
^ abQuick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations in England, Scotland and Wales – a chronology. Richmond: Railway and Canal Historical Society. pp. 459–460. OCLC 931112387.
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