Manchester Exchange After Closure – Class 40s, Class 47s and Trains Through a Forgotten Station

Manchester Exchange in the 1980s – The Abandoned Railway Station Where British Rail Trains Still Ran.

Manchester Exchange was one of Britain's great railway stations – but its story didn't end when it closed to passengers in 1969.

In this video, we travel back to the fascinating remains of Manchester Exchange during the 1970s and 1980s, when trains were still passing through its abandoned platforms on their way to and from Manchester Victoria.

We look at the unusual role Exchange continued to play after closure, including its use for newspaper traffic, and remember the incredible atmosphere of diesel locomotives passing through a station that was officially closed.

During the 1980s, the railway around Manchester Victoria offered a wonderful variety of British Rail traction, including Class 25s, Class 31s, the mighty Class 40s and Class 47s, alongside first-generation diesel multiple units, parcels trains, newspaper traffic and engineers' workings.

We also discover what happened to Manchester Exchange's enormous train shed, why trains continued passing through the station for so many years after closure, and how the surviving railway finally disappeared in the early 1990s.

Did you ever travel through the remains of Manchester Exchange? Do you remember seeing trains passing through its abandoned platforms during the 1970s or 1980s?

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