Manchester Mayfield Station
Manchester Mayfield Station
![The superstructure of the canopy remains largely intact.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image1-427.jpg)
![The main shed is about 560 feet from end to end; tacked on is a 90-foot extension at the south-east corner.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image2-427.jpg)
![Across the road, the West Coast Main Line runs alongside the site as it approaches Piccadilly.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image3-427.jpg)
![Much of the glass roof has survived the years since closure.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image4-424.jpg)
![An elegant staircase brought passengers to the platforms.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image5-412.jpg)
![Some of the switchgear stands by to be re-energised.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image6-392.jpg)
![Looking out through the platforms towards the main line.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image7-362.jpg)
![Substantial bufferstops wait for action.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image8-308.jpg)
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Opened by the London & North Western Railway in August 1910, Manchester Mayfield was built to ease congestion at the neighbouring London Road Station, later renamed Piccadilly. A footbridge connected the two.
Damaged by a German bomb during the Second World War, closure came in August 1960 following the modernisation of Piccadilly.
July 1970 witnessed a rebirth of sorts when the Royal Mail converted the site into a parcels depot. A move from rail to road drove its second closure in 1986, since when the building has remained derelict. The main entrance hall, at the junction of Baring/Travis Street, was gutted by fire in 2005.
Several schemes have been put forward as future uses for Mayfield including as a means of increasing capacity at Piccadilly. Plans for a new coach station and government ‘super-campus’ have been mooted but the firmest proposals seem to be for a commercial office development.
The building remains in the hands of British Railways Board (Residuary).