A TALE OF TWO STATIONS

We're arriving at Manchester Victoria station, sometime around 1967. Here's one of those unusual EMUs from Bury.

A few other shots at Manchester Victoria around the same time.

In the later years of the 1970s, a parcels DMU stabled in the station.

Now for a few shots from the 1980s.

47 645 departs westwards.

Back inside the station, the famous L&YR tiled map.

Preserved Oldham Corporation Leyland no. 304 photograohed outside Manchester Victoria station.

Greater Manchester PTE used this spot to stop their buses.

There was once a Victoria bus station.

A new bus station has been opened just outside Victoria station. It's called Shudehill.

Two generations of Metrolink trams near Shudehill.

Shudehill once had a hen market.

The Rovers Return (where have I heard that name before?) once served market goers.

Today, drinkers are catered for in the excellent Hare & Hounds.

Connected to Manchester Victoria station by Platform 11, Manchester Exchange closed in the 1960s. Here are the through platforms, circa 1967.

And here are the terminal platforms, out of use.

Exchange station was handy for the Cathedral and the trams.

 

Manchester Exchange No. 2 signal box in pre-grouping days.

The closed remains of Exchange station in 1980.

That's where I'll leave your for this post. Next time there'll be pubs, breweries and lots more.