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Manchester Victoria
All photographs of this location in date order.
![40122 poses at Manchester Victoria.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/12000/12886.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Bury electrics at Manchester Victoria.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //]](/images/12000/12969.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Newton Heath Black 5 no 45203 stands on one of the centre roads at Manchester Victoria. The photograph is thought to have been taken in 1968, the year of its withdrawal.<br><br>[K A Gray //1968]](/images/40000/40972.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Britannia Pacific 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> at Manchester Victoria on 1 June 1968 with BR (Scottish Region) <I>Grand Rail Tour no 5</I>.<br><br>[John Robin 01/06/1968]](/images/45000/45586.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Stanier 8F 2-8-0 no 48168 heads a freight just east of Manchester Victoria on 1 June 1968. [Ref Query 5483] <br><br>[John Robin 01/06/1968]](/images/45000/45919.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![The BR (Scottish Region) <I>Grand Rail Tour no 5</I> stands in the shadows at Manchester Victoria on 1 June 1968 behind Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I>.<br><br>[John Robin 01/06/1968]](/images/46000/46410.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Black 5 44884 at the rear of BR <I>'Scottish Grand Tour no 5'</I> banking the train out of Manchester Victoria on 1 June 1968. The special, headed by 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I>, was on its way to Guide Bridge.<br><br>[John Robin 01/06/1968]](/images/51000/51730.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> stands at Manchester Victoria with the BR <I>Midland Line Centenary Special Railtour</I> on 9 June 1968. The Britannia had taken over the train (which had originated from St Pancras behind 'Peak' D138) at Derby and had brought it over the Midland route via Peak Forest. From here the special ran to Nottingham Midland via the Hope Valley line and Chesterfield [see image 21056] where D138 took over for the return leg to St Pancras.<br>
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<br><br>[Robin Barbour collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 09/06/1968]](/images/32000/32270.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![The BR 1Z74 <i>'Midland Line Centenary Special Railtour'</i> standing at Manchester Victoria on 9 June 1968 behind Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I>.<br><br>[K A Gray 09/06/1968]](/images/37000/37808.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![The BR <I>'Midland Line Centenary Special Railtour'</i> stands at Manchester Victoria on 9 June 1968 behind Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I>. <br><br>[K A Gray 09/06/1968]](/images/39000/39840.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Platform scene at Manchester Victoria on 9 June 1968 with Black 5 no 45350 assisting with the stock of the BR (LMR) <I>'Midland Line Centenary Special Railtour'</I>. During a two hour stopover at Victoria a short DMU tour had been arranged for participants to Manchester Piccadilly and back. The special later left for Nottingham Midland behind 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' [see image 32850]. [With thanks to Vic Smith, John Robin and Douglas Corrigan]<br><br>[K A Gray 09/06/1968]](/images/41000/41069.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Black 5 no 44910 simmers alongside the platform at the west end of Manchester Victoria station on a quiet afternoon in July 1968.<br><br>[Jim Peebles /07/1968]](/images/33000/33114.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![48476+73069 at Manchester Victoria on 4 August 1968, ready to play their part in the RCTS <I>'End of Steam Commemorative Railtour'</I> due in from London Euston.<br><br>[K A Gray 04/08/1968]](/images/31000/31774.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> + Black 5 no 44781 at Manchester Victoria station on 4 August 1968. The pair double-headed the LCGB <I>'Farewell to Steam'</I> rail tour [referred to as the <I>'Last Day of Steam Rail Tour'</I> on the tickets] from Manchester as far as Blackburn. On reaching Blackburn 70013 was replaced by Stanier 8F no 48773 for the next leg to Carnforth, with the Britannia then running light engine to Lostock Hall where it later took over the RCTS <I>''End of Steam Commemorative Rail Tour''</I> being run on the same day [see image 31774].<br><br>[K A Gray 04/08/1968]](/images/34000/34377.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Cross platform view at Manchester Victoria on 4 August 1968 with Britannia Pacific no 70013 <I>Oliver Cromwell</I> + Black 5 no 44781 present in connection with the LCGB <I>'Farewell to Steam'</I> rail tour [aka the <I>'Last Day of Steam Rail Tour'</I>]. [See image 34377]<br><br>[K A Gray 04/08/1968]](/images/38000/38985.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Train 1T57, the BR 'Fifteen Guinea Special', at Manchester Victoria on 11 August 1968 following its return journey from Carlisle, via Hellifield and Blackburn behind 44781+44871 [see image 47244]. The train has now been taken over by 45110, which will shortly depart on the final leg back to Liverpool Lime Street. [Ref query 27 January 2018]<br><br>[K A Gray 11/08/1968]](/images/62000/62668.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Eastbound freight through Manchester Victoria in November 1970. Platform 11, Britains longest railway platform, is on the left and the east end of Exchange station (closed the previous year) can be seen in the left background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/11/1970]](/images/4000/4420.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![A picture that at first glance doesn't do justice to the train engine, green Class 40 No. 40106. What appears to be a short parcels train is actually a passenger service for Bangor, the rear coach of which can just be seen to the left of the loco as it runs into Manchester Victoria off the now lifted line from Red Bank Carriage Sidings. Also to the left of the loco is the now demolished power signal box while <I>Platting Bank</I> climbs steeply away to the right of the train. The green celebrity loco was finally withdrawn the following year and is now owned by the Class 40 Preservation Society based on the East Lancashire Railway [See image 58581]. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/08/1982]](/images/24000/24898.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![<I>Whistle while you wait.</I> An early EE Class 40, 40008, idles on the centre roads at Manchester Victoria between banking duties. When Victoria was rebuilt the trainshed was demolished and new platforms built. This view was taken from what is now Platform 3, the old through platform to Exchange station. The lines on which the loco is standing are now covered by the new Platforms 4 and 5, [See image 29761] with the Manchester Arena above. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/08/1982]](/images/29000/29762.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Early days on the Manchester waste trains and the driver of 47289 opens the throttle though Victoria station to tackle Platting Bank with a train of refuse containers in August 1982. This was long before the complete rebuild of the station [see image 32874]. 47289 lasted in service until 2003 and was only cut up in 2010 in Stockton.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/08/1982]](/images/41000/41131.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![47536 preparing to take an afternoon train out of Manchester Victoria in the summer of 1987.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /08/1987]](/images/34000/34800.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Looking south towards the Bury electric platforms at Manchester Victoria in 1990.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1990]](/images/12000/12938.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![One of the unique class 504 Bury dc electric units stands at Manchester Victoria in August 1990. The system, based on 1200v dc third rail with side contact current collection, was abandoned in 1991 when the line was closed to make way for the Manchester Metrolink light rail system. An example of the class is preserved on the East Lancs Railway.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 18/08/1990]](/images/19000/19309.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Regional Railways 'Pacers' at Manchester Victoria in September 1990.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 02/09/1990]](/images/39000/39189.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![26025 passing through Manchester Victoria in October 1990.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 03/10/1990]](/images/36000/36619.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Manchester Victoria gets a new hole in the wall - for trams - October 1990.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 10/10/1990]](/images/34000/34485.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Demolition of Manchester Victoria's Irwell sidings in progress during April 1993.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /04/1993]](/images/38000/38281.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![The fearsome Platting bank, mainly at 1 in 47, starts immediately at the eastern platform end of Manchester Victoria. Of course it is much less of a challenge to Sprinters than their predecessors. 156444 drops down the bank heading for the bay platforms. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 01/09/2008]](/images/20000/20514.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![An impressive feature that is still on the concourse at Manchester Victoria is this wall map of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway <I>coast to coast</I> system. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 30/09/2008]](/images/21000/21263.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![At the east end of Manchester Victoria there are still some platforms in use. On the right are the bay platforms on the national rail network while on the left is the through island platform used by the Metrolink trams. Beyond the station the Metrolink goes onto street running through the city centre. Out of shot on the far right are the through platforms on the national network above which is the Manchester Evening News Arena. The photograph makes an interesting comparison with that taken by Ian Dinmore [see image 12938]<br><br>[John McIntyre 30/09/2008]](/images/25000/25426.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![A Rochdale via Oldham service waits to leave Manchester Victoria on 28 September 2009<br><br>[Ian Dinmore 28/09/2009]](/images/30000/30664.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Southport and Liverpool services awaiting departure from Manchester Victoria station. 156490 for Liverpool is on Platform 3, the old through platform that linked to Manchester Exchange. 150136 is on Platform 4, a new structure built over the former through lines [See image 29762]. This view looks east and Platting bank can be seen beyond the platforms. The columns on Platform 4 support the Manchester Arena above the station.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/07/2010]](/images/29000/29761.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> receives attention from the support <br>
crew as it waits at Manchester Victoria with <I>The Cotton Mill Express</I> on 17 July 2010, having completed the first circuit of the Standedge route. Unfortunately the locomotive was not permitted to proceed with the second circuit due to a leaking gland but did take the train up Miles Platting bank ecs to Castleton where repairs were completed. It then returned the train to Carnforth later in the evening. <br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 17/07/2010]](/images/29000/29944.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![150133 approaching Manchester Victoria from the west on 17 July 2010, with a service from Clitheroe via Blackburn and Bolton. The footbridge of the former Manchester Exchange station can be seen on the left of the photograph. <br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 17/07/2010]](/images/29000/29961.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Those who knew Manchester Victoria in the 60s and 70s may <br>
find it hard to believe that this is the same station on 19 February 2011. The photograph was taken looking west from high above platform 5 as 142012 waits to commence a journey to Blackpool North. Above the station is the major Manchester concert venue the MEN (Manchester Evening News) arena.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/02/2011]](/images/32000/32874.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![A Bury to Piccadilly service emerges from the <I>Hole in the Wall</I> at Manchester Victoria station to climb up to Shudehill. Trams from Bury arrive in the area that used to hold the bay platforms for the electric trains but then swing right through 90 degrees and leave the trainshed by this gap specially created for them to join the street running section. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/03/2011]](/images/33000/33280.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![The main building at Manchester Victoria was dirty and run down for many years but it has been renovated and probably now looks like it did when it was the headquarters of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In particular the canopies at the front have been painstakingly restored [see image 33428]. The Metrolink tram services emerge from the <I>hole in the wall</I> that is just off picture to the right. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/03/2011]](/images/33000/33424.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![A close up view of just some of the canopy sections outside the main building at Manchester Victoria. They display the names of places served by the L&YR and this section reads, from left to right, <I>Bury Blackpool Fleetwood Goole Ireland Scotland London</I> but there are others along the entire building frontage. [See image 33424] <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 19/03/2011]](/images/33000/33428.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Extensive rebuilding at Manchester Victoria will see it close to trams for nine months from February 2014. The famous <I>Hole in the Wall</I> has already gone as seen here. One of the very few operational early series trams, 2001, passes 3056 near the station entrance four days before the station tram stop closed. Trams will continue to pass through while work takes place but passengers will have to use Shudehill. [See image 33280] for the same location prior to the rebuilding work. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/02/2014]](/images/46000/46315.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Rebuilding at Manchester Victoria will transform both the main line and Metrolink areas. Tram 3023 on a Bury service arrives under temporary roofing alongside Northern 153 and 158 units. The Victoria tram stop closed completely a few days later and for the rest of 2014 trams passed through the site on a single line but not stop. The station will fully reopen when the additional tracks and platforms in connection with the new second city crossing line have been finished.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 13/02/2014]](/images/46000/46405.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![While Manchester Victoria's Metrolink area is being rebuilt there is temporary single line working through the area (and the tramstop is closed to passengers). This is the view over the driver's shoulder on a Bury bound tram showing the ongoing construction work as it passes the site of the famous <I>Hole in the wall</I>. [See image 33280] for the same location in 2011.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/06/2014]](/images/47000/47830.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![The temporary single line working through Victoria operates on a sort of staff, ticket and pilotman arrangement whereby two or three trams travel in the same direction before running is reversed. A narrow control cabin has been built between the tram tracks at the <I>Platting Bank</I> end of the section, seen here over the driver's shoulder of a Bury bound tram. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 09/06/2014]](/images/47000/47863.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![As the new roof at Manchester Victoria is installed by two huge cranes, Bury and Rochdale trams continue to pass on the temporary single line. Metrolink 3003 drops down from Shudehill to pass through the building site heading for Bury on 6th August 2014. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 07/08/2014]](/images/48000/48325.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![A tram heading for Bury threads its way though the single line section from Shudehill on 31 October, with construction of the striking new roof of Manchester Victoria at an advanced stage. <br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 31/10/2014]](/images/49000/49303.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![A Metrolink tram on a Bury service heads though the construction site which will re-establish Manchester Victoria as a station on the system when new island platforms are completed. To the left Platform 1 on the main network is awaiting the arrival of a train from Leeds which will terminate here.<br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 31/10/2014]](/images/49000/49339.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![At the head of the 1Z40 Southport to York railtour on 29 November 2014 was the Class 40 Preservation Society's immaculately turned out No.345, seen here following its arrival at Manchester Victoria.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/11/2014]](/images/49000/49607.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![A Northern service from Leeds arrives at Manchester Victoria platform 4 on 29 November 2014. Electrification at the west end of Victoria is well advanced but there are fewer clues at the east end of the station with a pair of stanchions visible in this view.<br><br>[John McIntyre 29/11/2014]](/images/49000/49646.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![<I>Almost like the old days</I>. 2014 saw the return of the Liverpool Newcastle services to Manchester Victoria after many years of running through Piccadilly. TPE 185101 approaches the west end of Platform 3 at Victoria. This is the truncated platform that used to continue all the way through to Manchester Exchange until 1969. The train will climb Platting bank before turning right to pick up the Standedge route through Ashton-under-Lyne. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/12/2014]](/images/49000/49727.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![An Altrincham bound double tram picks its way carefully through the Manchester Victoria <I>re-building site</I> on 2nd December 2014. In January Metrolink announced that Victoria would re-open to trams on 18th February 2015. Although further work will still be required to complete the station project fully passengers will be able to catch trams from here again instead of having to walk to Shudehill. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 02/12/2014]](/images/50000/50186.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Northern 158845 at Manchester Victoria on 2 January 2015 shortly after arrival as the 1326 ex-Leeds.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 02/01/2015]](/images/50000/50026.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![The temporary single Metrolink track through Manchester Victoria has been replaced by a complex junction for the <I>second city crossing</I> that is under construction. Metrolink 3043 negotiates the pointwork as it enters the covered area in April 2015. [See image 49303] taken six months earlier. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/04/2015]](/images/51000/51095.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![The new three line Metrolink platforms arrangement at Victoria is now taking shape, and trams are calling again although work is not yet finished. With the roof cladding now in place, a double tram for Bury pulls into the centre road on 20th April 2015. [See image 49339] for the same location six months earlier. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 20/04/2015]](/images/51000/51178.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Double tram tracks are in place again from Shudehill through Manchester Victoria, while at the new side entrance two further tracks are being laid for the <I>Second City Crossing</I>. A double tram led by 3036 climbs Balloon St on 25th June heading for Shudehill as a further double set passes through Victoria bound for Bury. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/06/2015]](/images/51000/51774.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Construction work and tram track laying taking place in Corporation Street near Manchester Victoria station on 25 June 2015 in connection with the planned 'second city crossing'. [See news item]<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/06/2015]](/images/51000/51803.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![TPE 185140 leaves Manchester Victoria on 25 June heading for Liverpool Lime St with a service from North East England. Just ahead of the train, in a siding on the left, is one of the recently introduced Class 319 EMUs on layover between services. This image taken from the staircase of the west end footbridge as, with the completion of Manchester Victoria's electrification, new raised parapets have been installed on the bridge deck and another photography spot has gone. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/06/2015]](/images/51000/51826.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Just a little more tidying around the new Metrolink section of Manchester Victoria and the station will be ready to receive trams from the link to Exchange Square that may open later in 2015, ahead of the full <I>second city crossing</I>. 155341 leaves from the Network Rail side of Victoria on 25th June 2015, heading for Leeds via Todmorden and Dewsbury. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 25/06/2015]](/images/51000/51881.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![A Saturday evening tram for Rochdale prepares to leave Manchester Victoria station on 18 July. A much tidier view than a few months ago [see image 49303].<br><br>[Ken Strachan 18/07/2015]](/images/52000/52172.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Passengers boarding a 158 at Manchester Victoria on 18 July heading for Huddersfield. Love that new roof. [See image 49339]<br><br>[Ken Strachan 18/07/2015]](/images/52000/52237.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![The ends of the old roof panels at Manchester Victoria have been replaced with strings of lights, which has the odd effect of making the station look a bit like a theatre at night. As the approaching Metrolink staff might respond with Northern humour, 'it's always a song and dance round here'.<br><br>[Ken Strachan 18/07/2015]](/images/63000/63245.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![With major internal construction work complete, a Metrolink Service from Bury to Piccadilly heads out from Manchester Victoria Station on 24th July 2015 [see Image 49303]. The modern architectural style of the new roof makes a striking contrast with that of the original Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway headquarters. <br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 24/07/2015]](/images/52000/52102.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![319383 and 142001 share adjacent platforms at Manchester Victoria under the MEN Arena on 9 October 2015.<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/10/2015]](/images/53000/53235.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Metrolink trams approach and depart from Manchester Victoria on 10 December. These trams are on the original route via Piccadilly Gardens. To the left is the second city crossing via Exchange Square.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/12/2015]](/images/53000/53554.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![Northern Class 158 waits in one of the two bay platforms at the east end of Manchester Victoria on the afternoon of 19 May 2017. The unit has been internally refurbished and is in the new Northern livery, about to depart to Leeds.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/05/2017]](/images/59000/59463.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
![English Electric Type 4 no.345 arrives back at Manchester Victoria on the evening of 10 June 2017 with the CFPS 'The East Lancs Enterprise' tour. This leg was from Holyhead to Preston via Yorkshire.<br><br>[John McIntyre 10/06/2017]](/images/59000/59612.jpg "Manchester Victoria")
