Place Diggle Grid reference SE007080 Platforms in use 4 | Area Oldham 1 August 1849 Station opens | |
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Pre-grouping London and North Western Railway Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway Original company London and North Western Railway Similar Dousland railway station, Staley and Millbrook railway st, Irlams o' th' Height railway st, Darcy Lever railway st, Astley railway station | ||
Diggle railway station served the village of Diggle and was located on the Huddersfield Line to the north of Uppermill. Situated immediately to the west of the Standedge tunnels, it was opened in 1849 along with the first rail tunnel and closed to passenger traffic in 1968. In its heyday, the station had platforms serving all four lines but little trace remains of it today - all of the buildings & much of platforms having been demolished (although the nearby signal box remains operational).
On 5 July 1923, an express passenger train was in a rear-end collision with a freight train. Four people were killed.
In March 2012, a campaign to reopen the station was launched by a local Liberal Democrat parish councillor. This proved unsuccessful, as Transport for Greater Manchester concluded that much of the cited passenger demand would actually be abstracted from the existing station at nearby Greenfield.