History

The station was opened on 8 April 1844 by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway

Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway

The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway was an early British railway company which opened in stages between 1841 and 1845 between Sheffield and Manchester via Ashton-under-Lyne...

. A new station was opened in 1953 on a different site in conjunction with the opening of the new Woodhead Tunnel

Woodhead Tunnel

The Woodhead Tunnels are three parallel trans-Pennine 3-mile long railway tunnels on the Woodhead Line, a former major rail link from Manchester to Sheffield in northern England...

and electrification of the line. The station was closed on 27 July 1964 but the line remained open for passengers trains until 1970 and to freight traffic until 1981.