Other Didsbury Stations
Prior to the Beeching Axe of the 1960s, the Didsbury area was served by three different railway stations: East Didsbury, Didsbury, and Withington and West Didsbury.
Didsbury Station was opened in 1880 in the centre of Didsbury Village on the Cheshire Lines Committee line into Manchester Central. This connected to the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee line from Chinley, and the Midland Railway used it for its express services from London St. Pancras. It closed in 1967 and, though the building was used for a while by a hardware dealer, it has now disappeared, apart from the platforms, a clock tower and a drinking fountain dedicated to the memory of a local philanthropist, Dr. D.J. Wilson (1847–1900).
There was also Withington and West Didsbury, the next station on the line, the two being so similar in appearance that passengers sometimes alighted at the wrong one. Originally it was called "Withington", then from 1884 "Withington and Albert Park", receiving its final name in 1915. All that remains is a boundary wall, a block of flats (Brankgate Court) having been built on the site.
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