Waiting for the Trains which never come

            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.
Mayfield was a relief station mainly used by extra trains and suburban services to the south of Manchester. In the London Midland timetable of September 1951, the Pines Express from Bournemouth West is shown as arriving at Mayfield at 4.30pm  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.
 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.
The site was converted into a parcels depot which opened on 6 July 1970. The depot closed in 1986 following the decision by Parcelforce, Royal Mail's parcels division, to abandon rail transport in favour of road haulage. The building has remained disused ever since with the tracks into Mayfield removed in 1989.
The overall roof was largely dismantled in 2013, the rest will be demolished later this year to make way for redevelopment.
This was a private visit for Bury Photographic Society hosted by Jonathan Schofield Manchester Tours.

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Taken on: May 12, 2018

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