page_title: Manchester Exchange railway station
section_title: Construction and opening
hierarchical_section_title: Manchester Exchange railway station / Construction and opening
caption_attribution_description: English: Eastbound freight entering Manchester Exchange Station. View westward from the end of Platform 5, towards Ordsall Lane/Salford etc. etc., with an eastbound Class K freight passing, headed by BR Standard (Caprotti valve-gear) 4-6-0 No. 73144. On the left Trinity Church is prominent; on the right are the lines into Victoria Station, and Deal Street Box (controlling all) is visible behind the locomotive.
context_page_description: Manchester Exchange was a railway station in Salford, England, immediately north of Manchester city centre, which served the city between 1884 and 1969. The main approach road ran from the end of Deansgate, near Manchester Cathedral, passing over the River Irwell, the Manchester-Salford boundary and Chapel Street; a second approach road led up from Blackfriars Road. Most of the station was in Salford, with only the 1929 extension to platform 3 east of the Irwell in Manchester.
context_section_description: The station was built by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) and opened on 30 June 1884. The station had five platforms: 1 and 2 were bays and 3, 4 and 5 were through. Platforms 4 and 5 were reached by a footbridge from near the station entrance. The opening of Exchange allowed the LNWR to vacate Manchester Victoria station to the east, which it (and its predecessors, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway) had shared with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (and its predecessors) since 4 May 1844.
  From 16 April 1929, Exchange had a platform link with the adjacent Victoria, when an eastward extension of platform 3 over the Irwell bridge was opened, meeting Victoria's platform 11, thus creating Europe's longest platform at 2,238 feet (682 m); it could accommodate three trains at once.
caption: Eastbound goods train in 1966
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