This is site has led me to discovering a couple near my childhood home .I grew up in Saddleworth and knew a station had been closed but had never seen it. I did not know about a second station, Diggle just up the tracks. I have ridden my bike over where Diggle station once was hundreds of times passed the signal box. I had no idea that this was also the location for a fatal crash many years ago. About 200m away there is the entrance to a tunnel that was blocked off at the other end. For those that know the area it should come out near Saddleworth School.

The station I did know about but had never seen is Saddleworth. Interesting fact is that Ken Stephinson converted the station into a house after it was closed. Ken was the producer of......

The first series is notable in that it featured the first television travelogue by Michael Palin

I used to have the Totem signs from both Diggle and Saddleworth stations in the 1970's.. The old station master was called Alfred Fidler. I still have the old newspaper cutting from The Manchester Evening news when it closed in 1968. I'll see if I can dig it out and post it up.

The tunnel you refer to was Butterhouse, which I walked through three or four years ago, some photographs here:-

https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/butterhouse-...

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