Heywood railway station

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Heywood
Location
Place	Heywood
Local authority	Rochdale
Operations
Managed by	East Lancashire Railway
Platforms in use	1
History
1841	Original station opened
1960s	Closed
2003	Current station opened
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Heywood railway station serves the town of Heywood in Greater Manchester, UK. The original station opened on the national rail network in 1841 and closed in the 1960s. It re-opened in 2003 as an extension of the East Lancashire Railway from Bury Bolton Street.

[edit] References

• The Manchester and Leeds Railway by Martin Bairstow

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Railways in Rochdale (Past, Present and Future)

Legend To Bacup To Calderdale Broadley(Dismantled) Littleborough Shawclough & Healey(Dismantled) Wardleworth(Dismantled) Smithy Bridge Rochdale Centre{Proposed) Proposed Metrolink Drake Street(Proposed) Rochdale Newbold(Proposed) Kingsway(Proposed) Milnrow To Bury Castleton Broadfield(Closed) Newhey Heywood To Oldham Middleton(Dismantled) Mills Hill To Oldham Middleton Junction(Closed) To Manchester

Preceding station	Heritage railways			Following station
Bury Bolton Street		East Lancashire Railway		Terminus
Disused Railways
Broadfield		L&YR		Castleton