[Ian Howarth]

Pendlebury Station has been long gone. Even the platform itself has been removed. I can remember it as a boy walking along the connecting bridge/corridor from the entrance door with the booking office on the right to the steps down to the platform, also on the right hand side as you walked in.
The bridge across seemed quit narrow if you compare it to that at Atherton Station which is in a way similar but not the same. It was a longer bridge as it had to go across the fast lines as well as one of the slow lines. There was a signal box near to the blue brick bridge which is still there and carried Clively Road across it. This road was only accessible by foot once you had crossed it as it actually split into a fork and went down either side of the tunnel mouth of Clifton Hall Tunnel. The tunnel had been filled in when I used to go down there but the top of the tunnel coping stones had been uncovered gradually by the weather erosion although they were subsequently recovered. The railway lines were still in place to Clifton Hall Sidings but were disused. The area around was a great place for boys to play and explore as a lot of the old railway had been abandoned but not removed. It lay in this state for a number of years before gradually being removed.