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{{Short description|Former railway station in England}}
{{For|the former station in Pendleton, Greater Manchester, on the Manchester to Preston line|Pendleton Bridge station (Manchester to Preston Line)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}
{{Infobox station
| name                = Pendleton
| status              = Disused
| image               = Pendleton railway station in 1989.jpg
| caption             = Pendleton railway station in 1989
| borough             = [[Pendleton, Greater Manchester|Pendleton]], [[City of Salford|Salford]]
| country             = England
| coordinates         = {{coord|53.4922|-2.2841|type:railwaystation_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| grid_name           = [[Ordnance Survey National Grid|Grid reference]]
| grid_position       = {{gbmapscaled|SJ813995|25|SJ813995}}
| platforms           = 2
| original            = [[Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway]]
| pregroup            = Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
| postgroup           = [[London, Midland and Scottish Railway]]
| years               = {{Start date|1889|06|01|df=yes}}
| events              = Opened as ''Pendleton Broad Street''
| years1              = ?
| events1             = Renamed ''Pendleton''
| years2              = 1994
| events2             = Temporarily Closed
| years3              = 1998
| events3             = Formally closed
}}
'''Pendleton (Broad Street) railway station''' was a railway station serving [[Pendleton, Greater Manchester|Pendleton]], a district of [[Salford]]. It was on Broughton Road ([[A576 road|A576]]) just behind [[St Thomas' Church, Pendleton|St. Thomas' Church]]. It was about 100 yards further up Broughton Road from [[Pendleton Bridge station (Manchester to Preston Line)|Pendleton Bridge railway station]] and nearer Pendleton Church and Broad Street ([[A6 road (England)|A6]]). This station was known as Pendleton Broad Street due to its closeness to the A6 Broad Street some 100 yards away. It was on the [[Manchester Victoria railway station|Manchester Victoria]] to [[Wigan Wallgate railway station|Wigan Wallgate]] line with a spur to the Manchester Victoria to [[Bolton railway station|Bolton]] line so trains to Bolton used it after the closure of Pendleton Bridge in 1966, and "Broad Street" was then dropped from its name.

==History==
The line from Windsor Bridge Junction (Salford) and Crow Nest Junction (Hindley), which shortened the route between Manchester and Liverpool, was authorised in 1883,<ref>{{cite book |last=Marshall |first=John |author-link=John Marshall (railway historian) |title=The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, volume 2 |year=1970 |publisher=[[David & Charles]] |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=0-7153-4906-6 |pages=77, 94, 96 }}</ref> and in 1885 a connection was authorised from the new line at Brindle Heath to the Bolton line at Agecroft.<ref>{{harvnb|Marshall|1970|p=79}}</ref>

[[File:Manchester RJD 47.JPG|thumb|left|A 1910 [[Railway Clearing House]] Junction Diagram showing railways in the vicinity of Pendleton (upper left; shown here as ''PENDLETON (BROAD STREET)'')]]
The new lines opened in stages to goods traffic during 1887–88, and to passengers on 1 June 1889;<ref>{{harvnb|Marshall|1970|p=93}}</ref> on that day the station initially named ''Pendleton Broad Street'' was also opened.<ref>{{cite book |last=Butt |first=R.V.J. |title=The Directory of Railway Stations |year=1995 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Yeovil |isbn=1-85260-508-1 |id=R508 |page=183 }}</ref> It had four platforms, as it served both the Bolton line (via the Brindle Heath Junction–Agecroft Junction connection) and the new Wigan line.<ref>{{harvnb|Marshall|1970|p=94}}</ref>

Until the 1980s Pendleton was one of the more important stations on the Bolton-Manchester line, one of only two stations with a Sunday service. The nearby [[Salford Crescent railway station]], which opened in 1987, however, took much of the passenger traffic away from Pendleton station, sending it into terminal decline.<ref name="orrpr">{{cite web|url=http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.5546|title=Regulator allows closure of Pendleton station|date=1998-12-15|access-date=2008-03-27|publisher=[[Office of Rail Regulation]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930224027/http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.5546|archive-date=30 September 2007|df=dmy-all}}</ref> In 1988 services to Bolton were withdrawn (with the closure of the Brindle Heath to Agecroft Junction chord) leaving Pendleton served by Atherton line trains only. 

An [[arson]] attack in July 1994 led to the station being closed "temporarily" by [[Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive|GMPTE]],<ref name="reopening" /> though by this time it was only being served by four trains each day.<ref name="orrpr" /> Final closure came in 1998 after it was deemed that repairing the damage caused by the vandalism would not represent good value for money: "The Franchising Director advertised the closure and, in assessing the impact of the closure the RUCC for North Western England concluded (on 6 May 1998) that no hardship would result from closure as no trains had called at Pendleton for four years."<ref name="orrpr" /> Closure came despite a campaign for it to be re-opened by [[City of Salford|Salford Council]]<ref name="reopening">{{cite web|url=http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/1996/1/26/860340.html|date=1996-01-26|work=[[Bolton Evening News]]|access-date=2008-03-27|title=Announcing a station revival?|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060228122820/http://archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/1996/1/26/860340.html|archive-date=28 February 2006|df=dmy-all}}</ref> in 1996.

Close to the station was Agecroft locomotive shed and sidings.  The platform-level buildings have all been demolished, but the remnants of both island platforms are still visible from passing trains.<ref>[http://www.walkdenstation.org.uk/alongTheLine.shtml "Along the Line"] ''Friends of Walkden Station'' website article; Retrieved 28 November 2017</ref>

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