page_title: Manchester Mayfield railway station
section_title: Use as a passenger station
hierarchical_section_title: Manchester Mayfield railway station / History / Use as a passenger station
caption_attribution_description: English: The closed Manchester Mayfield station
context_page_description: Manchester Mayfield is a former railway station in Manchester, England, on the south side of Fairfield Street next to Manchester Piccadilly station. Opened in 1910, Mayfield was constructed as a four-platform relief station adjacent to Piccadilly to alleviate overcrowding. In 1960, the station was closed to passengers and, in 1986, it was permanently closed to all services having seen further use as a parcels depot.
  After years of abandonment and many proposed development schemes, the station roof was dismantled in February 2013. The site was used for Manchester International Festival in July 2013.
  Manchester Mayfield railway station and the surrounding 6.2-acre site is the property of London and Continental Railways, the residual government-owned corporation and former partner in Eurostar.
context_section_description: Opened on 8 August 1910 by the London and North Western Railway, Manchester Mayfield was built alongside Manchester London Road station (later Piccadilly) to handle the increased number of trains and passengers following the opening of the Styal Line in 1909. The LNWR had considered constructing a new platform at London Road between the MSJAR's platforms 1 and 2, which were renumbered 1 and 3 in anticipation, but this was abandoned in favour of the construction of Mayfield; the platforms nevertheless remained renumbered. Four platforms were provided and passengers could reach London Road via a high-level footbridge. Mayfield suffered the effects of bombing during World War II, when it was hit by a parachute mine on 22 December 1940.
  Mayfield was a relief station, mainly used by extra trains and suburban services to the south of Manchester. For example, in the 1957-58 London Midland Region timetable, there were trains to Cheadle Hulme, Buxton, Alderley Edge, Chelford and Stockport on weekdays.  In the London Midland timetable of September 1951, the Pines Express from Bournemouth West is shown as arriving at Mayfield at 4.30pm (16.30) on Mondays to Fridays. On Saturdays, this train used Piccadilly station, then known as London Road. In the 1957-8 timetable, the Pines Express still arrived at Mayfield on Mondays to Fridays, now at the time of 4.45pm (16.45).
  It came into its own for a brief period during the electrification and modernisation of what was to become Piccadilly station in the late 1950s, when many services were diverted to it. It was closed to passengers on 28 August 1960.
caption: Interior in 2009, showing 1910 buffer stops
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