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		The existing mainline south east of the Canal runs from Manchester to Huddersfield, Leeds, Scarborough, Newcastle, Hull, York, Middlesbrough and Sunderland. It accommodates 4 express trains per hour. Beyond Manchester many trains go to Manchester Airport and to Liverpool. Local stopping trains from Huddersfield to Manchester run every hour from Greenfield Station, 2 ½ miles west of Diggle. It may seem hard to believe now but at one time there were 10 stations in Saddleworth There has been no station in Diggle since 1968. There is a campaign to re-open the Station largely initiated by the Diggle Community Association. Before its closure the Station was located near the Diggle Hotel, the site where any possible replacement station would be. There were also fairly large marshalling yards to the west of the railway bridge.
	The main railway line was built as part of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and opened in 1849. From the bridge over the railway near the Diggle Hotel two now-disused single bore tunnels can be seen. These were the original tunnels which closed with the closure of both Diggle Station and the line known as the Micklehurst loop which went through Uppermill and Lower Mossley to Stalybridge and beyond. The tunnels are over 3 miles long. The currently-used double line tunnel opened in 1880s. Other than Greenfield the nearest railway stations to Diggle is Marsden in Yorkshire. Trains run hourly from Greenfield to Manchester and to Huddersfield from early morning to late evening.
	Peter Fox 'Old Saddleworth' collection	On 5th July, 1923 Diggle was the centre of attraction nationally when 4 people died in a train crash near the Ward lane Railway Bridge. An express passenger train from Leeds ran into a goods train. The locomotive seen lying against the cutting side near the bridge over ward lane was one of the two at the head of the express. Note the inevitable group of onlookers viewing the scene
	Diggle Station Pre - Dr Beeching

	Part of Michael Schofield Collection reproduced from "Miles Platting to Diggle - By Challenger Publications"

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