Report - Tivot Dale Tunnel, Stockport - Feb 2014

[paulpowers]

I pulled into the car park at Lancashire hill flats to eat my beef and pickle sarnies and decided to have a walk.

a quick hop over the fence and I was in, after the sarnies I had two mini Cornish pasties and a packet of pickled onion monster munch.

The history and pics are below.

During construction of the M63 motorway (now M60 motorway) and the line temporarily closed for safety reasons. The closure was made permanent west of Bredburys stone terminal in 1982 (following the demise of the Woodhead route) and the track was subsequently lifted in 1986 and the tunnel partially filled in. The area surrounding the station was further altered at the beginning of the 21st century to allow the construction of a supermarket and office buildings.