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| | Stalybridge Railways |
 | | A new Act of the 7th August 1888, appearing as the LNWR Stalybridge Junction Railway, was put forward as an extension of the Hooley Hill line beginning at Ashton Junction (a newly formed junction 37 chains beyond Hooley Hill Station) for a distance of 1 mile 4 furlongs 2 chains and 50 links to Stalybridge. |
 | | The Stalybridge Reporter, 6th December 1879, was obviously privy to the joint plans, and looked forward to seeing them implemented: "After a patient waiting for many long years, the Directors of the MSandLR and LNWR Companies are at last to fulfil their promises and Stalybridge is to have a handsome and commodious railway station.... |
 | | Born out of a desire by the LNWR to quadruple its tracks between Stalybridge and Huddersfield, the Loop line was a second best to the laying of an extra pair of tracks alongside the old route, a patent impossibility owing to the lack of space on the western side of the Tame valley. |
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