page_title: Greenfield, Greater Manchester
section_title: Rail
hierarchical_section_title: Greenfield, Greater Manchester / Transport / Rail
caption_attribution_description: A photograph of Greenfield railway station located in Greater Manchester, England.
context_page_description: Greenfield is a village in the Saddleworth parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, England. It is 4 miles east of Oldham, and 13 miles east-northeast of the city of Manchester. It lies in a broad rural area in the southern edge of the South Pennines. To the east of the village Dovestone Reservoir, Chew Reservoir and Greenfield Reservoir lie within the Peak District National Park, though no part of the village itself lies within the Peak Park boundary.
  Lying within the ancient county boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Greenfield is mainly situated on and around two roads in the Chew Valley. One of these roads is the main A635 road from Ashton-under-Lyne to Holmfirth.
context_section_description: Since the Oldham Loop closed, Greenfield is the only place in Saddleworth and the whole Metropolitan Borough of Oldham which has a railway station. Grotton & Springhead, Delph and Grasscroft stations closed in 1955, whilst Diggle and Saddleworth stations closed in 1968. Greenfield railway station lies along the Huddersfield Line with services running towards Huddersfield via Marsden and Slaithwaite and towards Manchester Victoria via Mossley, Stalybridge and Ashton-under-Lyne. A second line, known as the Micklehurst Line, cut through the village and was mainly used for freight. This closed in 1966 and the viaducts were removed in the mid 1970s, the former route now occupied, in the main, by a bridleway.
caption: Greenfield railway station, Saddleworth and Oldham's only remaining railway station
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