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I've added on about the fact that at one point, this station had six numbered platforms - the remnants of the others can still be seen, although are mostly hidden in the undergrowth.
The tale I was told by my grandfather (an ex-British Rail employee) was that the station was redeveloped in the 1950s in anticipation that a motor racing venue would be built nearby, hence six lines would be needed instead of the original four (2 for local, 2 for fast, 2 for special services to serve the motor racing). The racing venue went to Aintree Racecourse instead and the extra two platforms never used.
I have absolutely no idea how true that story is and can find no references to back it up - but I'm adding it here in case anyone else has heard the tale. There is a link in that Droylsden is one place which claims to be the home of speedway.
Bods ( talk) 15:18, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
In the early 80's, I read a Tameside Council book on the history of the borough. It claimed that the station had been built to anticipate a racecourse on where Fairfield Golf course is now.
Indeed you can speculate that the failed proposal fro Fairfield Athletic FC as a Football league club was maybe part of that venture.
Heatonparkincakes, Manchester 2nd June, 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.72.131 ( talk) 18:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page not moved: no concensus in 33 days. Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 22:52, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Fairfield railway station (Greater Manchester) → Fairfield (Greater Manchester) railway station — This article's title does not follow the convention of placing the locality immediately after the station name to distinguish it from other railway stations with the same name. There are a few templates that use this sequence to create links and these are currently going to a disambiguation page as the location cannot be used. Bill Oversixty ( talk) 20:57, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 03:57, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Fairfield railway station (Greater Manchester) → Fairfield (Manchester) railway station – To bring the station into line with the general naming convention applied to other stations including Clifton (Manchester) railway station and Swinton (Manchester) railway station, according to which the disambiguator follows directly after the station name. Lamberhurst ( talk) 17:48, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
The more I read this article, the more the following statement grates on me: "For a suburban station, Fairfield has very low passenger usage (see figures right)." Firstly, I'm not convinced that stating something then referring to another part of the page (in this case the infobox) for the justification is best practice. Secondly, I wonder if this statement may now be out of date as the infobox states that Fairfield had 41,000 passengers in 2018/19, the last year data is available - and that's approaching double the number from 2014/15. Finally, I think this breaks the Manual of Style guidance on WP:WHATPLACE - because it states that this is low usage for a suburban station, but doesn't define the scope. Are are looking at all suburban railway stations (in which case it would be much higher than many), all suburban stations in the UK or in GB (which will be skewed by places like London and Glasgow) or is this comparison intended for just Greater Manchester suburban stations? Does this comparison in any way account for level of service? I would prefer to see this expressed as a comparison with other similarly-situated stations in Greater Manchester and/or the UK. A few examples that spring to mind would be Moses Gate (usage about half), Levenshulme (usage 10x higher), Hackbridge (usage 20x higher) or London Road (Brighton) (usage 10x higher) but there are probably some others that are more appropriate (other than Moses Gate). -- Peeky44 What's on your mind? 14:55, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
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I've added on about the fact that at one point, this station had six numbered platforms - the remnants of the others can still be seen, although are mostly hidden in the undergrowth.
The tale I was told by my grandfather (an ex-British Rail employee) was that the station was redeveloped in the 1950s in anticipation that a motor racing venue would be built nearby, hence six lines would be needed instead of the original four (2 for local, 2 for fast, 2 for special services to serve the motor racing). The racing venue went to Aintree Racecourse instead and the extra two platforms never used.
I have absolutely no idea how true that story is and can find no references to back it up - but I'm adding it here in case anyone else has heard the tale. There is a link in that Droylsden is one place which claims to be the home of speedway.
Bods ( talk) 15:18, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
In the early 80's, I read a Tameside Council book on the history of the borough. It claimed that the station had been built to anticipate a racecourse on where Fairfield Golf course is now.
Indeed you can speculate that the failed proposal fro Fairfield Athletic FC as a Football league club was maybe part of that venture.
Heatonparkincakes, Manchester 2nd June, 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.72.131 ( talk) 18:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page not moved: no concensus in 33 days. Anthony Appleyard ( talk) 22:52, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
Fairfield railway station (Greater Manchester) → Fairfield (Greater Manchester) railway station — This article's title does not follow the convention of placing the locality immediately after the station name to distinguish it from other railway stations with the same name. There are a few templates that use this sequence to create links and these are currently going to a disambiguation page as the location cannot be used. Bill Oversixty ( talk) 20:57, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 03:57, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
Fairfield railway station (Greater Manchester) → Fairfield (Manchester) railway station – To bring the station into line with the general naming convention applied to other stations including Clifton (Manchester) railway station and Swinton (Manchester) railway station, according to which the disambiguator follows directly after the station name. Lamberhurst ( talk) 17:48, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
The more I read this article, the more the following statement grates on me: "For a suburban station, Fairfield has very low passenger usage (see figures right)." Firstly, I'm not convinced that stating something then referring to another part of the page (in this case the infobox) for the justification is best practice. Secondly, I wonder if this statement may now be out of date as the infobox states that Fairfield had 41,000 passengers in 2018/19, the last year data is available - and that's approaching double the number from 2014/15. Finally, I think this breaks the Manual of Style guidance on WP:WHATPLACE - because it states that this is low usage for a suburban station, but doesn't define the scope. Are are looking at all suburban railway stations (in which case it would be much higher than many), all suburban stations in the UK or in GB (which will be skewed by places like London and Glasgow) or is this comparison intended for just Greater Manchester suburban stations? Does this comparison in any way account for level of service? I would prefer to see this expressed as a comparison with other similarly-situated stations in Greater Manchester and/or the UK. A few examples that spring to mind would be Moses Gate (usage about half), Levenshulme (usage 10x higher), Hackbridge (usage 20x higher) or London Road (Brighton) (usage 10x higher) but there are probably some others that are more appropriate (other than Moses Gate). -- Peeky44 What's on your mind? 14:55, 26 April 2020 (UTC)