page_title: Salford Central railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Salford Central railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Westbound empty stock train passing Salford Station. View eastwards, towards Manchester Exchange/Victoria; ex-London &amp; North Western lines Manchester Exchange - Liverpool etc., which paralleled the ex-Lancashire &amp; Yorkshire lines westwards out of Manchester Victoria and passed through Salford Station. The locomotive is Hughes/Fowler 5P4F 2-6-0 No. 42810.
context_page_description: Salford Central railway station in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, close to Spinningfields and Deansgate. It is served by trains to and from Manchester Victoria, towards Rochdale and Wigan Wallgate.
context_section_description: The railway station opened on 29 May 1838 as a terminus on the Manchester and Bolton Railway and was originally named Salford railway station. In 1843, a connection to Manchester Victoria was built, carried on iron columns. The roof suffered from corrosion caused by the sulphurous emissions of locomotives passing through the station and one was replaced after only four years. Between April 1858 and August 1865, to avoid confusion with Salford (Oldfield Rd), the station was named Salford (New Bailey Street), after which it reverted to its original name of Salford.
  To avoid confusion with the newly built Salford Crescent station, in 1988 it was renamed Salford Central. For many years the station was served at peak times only.
  With only platforms 1 and 2 currently in use (platforms 3 and 4 have been disused since the early 1990s), the station is now managed by Northern Trains and has undergone a major transformation involving construction of a new ticket office as well as making the station building fully accessible by the use of ramps from the entrances to the ticket office and lifts and ramps from the ticket office to the platforms.
caption: Westbound empty stock train passing Salford Station in 1963
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