New Hey railway station

Newhey
Manchester Metrolink
Location
Place	Newhey
Local authority	Rochdale
Platforms	2
Fare zone information
Metrolink Zone
Present status	Under construction
History
Opening	c. 1863
Closed	2009
Conversion to Metrolink operation	Summer 2012
Former name	New Hey
Oldham and Rochdale Line Rochdale Town Centre Rochdale Railway Station  Newbold Kingsway Business Park Milnrow Newhey Shaw and Crompton Derker Oldham Mumps Oldham Central Oldham King Street Westwood Freehold South Chadderton Hollinwood Failsworth Newton Heath and Moston Central Park Monsall Manchester Victoria  to Piccadilly
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New Hey railway station, known by its archaist name, which opened on 2 November 1863 served Newhey, a suburb of Milnrow in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (notice the difference in spelling between the station and town names). The station was situated on the Manchester to Rochdale via Oldham route which connected the city of Manchester to the town of Rochdale via Oldham and a number of smaller districts and suburbs including Newhey.

At the time the station opened it was as part of a new line from Oldham Mumps to Rochdale East Junction, and created a Middleton Junction to Rochdale route. In 1880 a line was built from Oldham Werneth to Thorpes Bridge Junction near Newton Heath. Subsequently the whole Thorpes Bridge Junction to Rochdale East Junction route became known as the Oldham Loop Line. The pattern of train services on the Oldham Loop Line involved a greater number of trains serving the Oldham stations, and less services continuing on to New Hey and Rochdale. In the 1960s and 1970s fewer and fewer trains ran from Oldham Mumps to Rochdale, and in May 1972 the Secretary of State for Transport announced that this part of the Oldham Loop including New Hey Station would be closed. The closure did not go ahead because what later became the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE) agreed to fund the continuation of services. The involvement of the GMPTE also lead to a more frequent pattern of trains serving the Oldham Mumps to Rochdale section including New Hey.^[1]

The station closed on 3 October 2009 for the conversion of the line to Metrolink and will re-open as Newhey Metrolink station, with the modern spelling of the town's name, in the summer of 2012.

Gallery

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  September 2009

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  Coversion to Metrolink, September 2010

References

1. ^ http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/n/new_hey/index.shtml

External links

• Newhey Metrolink station plans

Preceding station		Manchester Metrolink		Following station
		Under Construction
Shaw and Crompton towards Victoria		Oldham and Rochdale Line		Milnrow towards Rochdale Town Centre
	Historical railways
Milnrow		L&YR Oldham Loop Line		Shaw and Crompton

The Oldham Loop Line
Stations (anticlockwise from Manchester) (*) Closed 3 October 2009 Dean Lane (*) Failsworth (*) Hollinwood (*) Oldham Werneth (*) Oldham Mumps (*) Derker (*) Shaw and Crompton (*) New Hey (*) Milnrow (*)

[v · d · e]Railways in Rochdale (Past, Present and Future)
Legend To Bacup To Calderdale Broadley Littleborough Shawclough and Healey Wardleworth Smithy Bridge Rochdale Town Centre Drake Street Rochdale Newbold Kingsway To Bury Milnrow Broadfield New Hey To Oldham Heywood Castleton Middleton Mills Hill To Manchester

Coordinates: 53°36′03″N 2°05′40″W / 53.60083°N 2.09444°W / 53.60083; -2.09444