The photograph above, taken in December of 2008, shows Liverpool Road Railway Station as it is today. As the plaque below indicates this is the Liverpool Road Station, now part of the Museum of Science and Industry, but famous as the world's first passenger railway station opened in 1830 by the Duke of Wellington.

The first terminus at the Manchester end of the Liverpool Manchester Railway was actually across the River Irwell in Salford, but in 1830 the railway came over the river, over Water Street and into the new station. The building had separate entrances and booking halls for First and Second Class passengers.

The photograph below is shown with the permission of Chetham's Library.  On the far left is the Water Street bridge.  The building next to the bridge housed the station master.  The white fronted building is the station.

The photograph below was taken in the 1960s after the station had laid abandoned for decades but you can still see the separate entrances.

The two photographs below shows the restored platform of the original passenger station.

Liverpool Road Passenger Station only operated until 1844 when the line was extended to Hunts Bank and Victoria Station opened. The complex of sidings, workshops and warehouses around the station continued to be used as a goods depot until 1975 when British Rail closed it.

The viaduct shown below was built by the LNWR in the 1860s.

Today the restored station and warehouse complex are part of MOSI - the Museum of Science and Industry.

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