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Hyde Road was a railway station in Gorton, Manchester, England, on the Fallowfield Loop Line. It opened in 1892 and closed in 1958 when local passenger services on the line stopped. The station was sometimes advertised as Hyde Road for Belle Vue, that is, convenient for Belle Vue Zoo, about one mile away.〔 The track closed completely in 1988 and the track was taken up. The station has long since been demolished, and the site has now been partly redeveloped. The line of the track is used as a cycleway. It was named after Hyde Road, a road which begins at the east end of Ardwick Green South in Ardwick and runs east towards Hyde. At the boundary between Gorton and Audenshaw it continues as Manchester Road.〔''Geographia Manchester Colour Map''. London: Geographia, 1986 ISBN 0-09-218190-2〕 ==History== The initial section of the Fallowfield Loop line was opened by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Cheshire Lines Committee) between and on 1 October 1891. The following year, the remaining section between Fallowfield and Fairfield, including Hyde Road station, opened on 2 May 1892. The line provided a new route for the MS&LR to run trains from into Manchester, and local stopping services ran from Fairfield and on the Hope Valley line to Manchester Central via Hyde Road, Fallowfield and before joining a section of line from to Manchester Central.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bikerides.dsracing.me.uk/routes/ffieldLoop.htm )〕〔 Hyde Road station comprised a set of brick buildings on an embankment on the north side of Hyde Road. The northbound platforms were mostly wooden structures. The Great Central Railway built two bay platforms at Hyde Road to accommodate excursion trains to Belle Vue Zoo which were in use until at least 1914, but were eventually taken out of use. The station had a large goods yard on the east side of the station consisting of four sidings and a 5-ton crane, controlled by a signalbox on the northbound platform, and a second box controlling the north junction to Gorton. These were later replaced by a single new box on the west side of the line. In 1897 the MSLR became the Great Central Railway and in 1923 the line was absorbed into the LNER. Over this period the Fallowfield Loop line suffered from competition from faster rail services into Manchester provided by the LNER from or , and later further competition arrived in the form of the Manchester Corporation Tramways. By the 1930s the LNER had greatly reduced the stopping services and mostly used the line for express trains. After 1948, the line was under the ownership of the nationalised British Railways. Briefly, consideration was given to electrification of the line, but instead the local stopping services were withdrawn and Hyde Road station closed to passenger services on 7 July 1958. Hyde Road goods yard remained in active use as a depot for local coal merchants. Express passenger services out of Manchester Central continued to use the line until that terminus was closed in 1969 following the Beeching cuts. For another two decades the line was used by freight trains until the line closed completely in 1988. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hyde Road railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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