Victoria Railway Station Bridge
Victoria Railway Station Bridge carries a farm track over the Manchester Ship Canal (River Irwell Upper Reach).
Early plans of what would become the Manchester Ship Canal (River Irwell Upper Reach) were drawn up by Barry Edwards in 1888 but problems with Ashfield Cutting caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1835. Expectations for pottery traffic to Oldton never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only the use of the canal for cooling Torquay power station was enough to keep it open. The 7 mile section between Northpool and Braintree was closed in 1955 after a breach at Redcar. In Nicholas Thomas's "Travels of The Barge" he describes his experiences passing through Macclesfield Tunnel during the Poll Tax riots.

There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.
| Hunts Bank | ½ furlongs | |
| Victoria Railway Station Bridge | ||
| Salford Bridge (Salford) | ½ furlongs | |
| Cathedral Approach Bridge | 1 furlong | |
| Victoria Bridge (Salford) | 1¼ furlongs | |
| Blackfriars Bridge | 2¼ furlongs | |
| Chapel Wharf Footbridge | 3¼ furlongs | |
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![Northern Electrics Class 319, 319386, Manchester Victoria railway station. The train temporarily moves into a siding at the western end of the station, from platform 3, beyond signal MN613. See also: [[4512719]] by El Pollock – 05 June 2015](https://s1.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/51/27/4512729_164650ff_120x120.jpg)







![Development on the Former Exchange Station Site. Looking west from the footbridge at Manchester Victoria Station. The shiny new glass-fronted buildings on the left are on the site of what was Manchester Exchange Station from 1884 until it closed in 1969. (Compare this photo with [[[3217883]]], taken in 2012 when some parts of the old station were still visible).From 1929, Platform 3 of Exchange Station joined platform 11 at Victoria, creating the longest railway station platform in Europe which, at 2238 feet in length, could accommodate three trains at once.* Although named Manchester Exchange, the bulk of the station was actually in Salford. http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/m/manchester_exchange/index.shtml Disused Stations: Manchester Exchange by David Dixon – 10 September 2019](https://s2.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/06/26/91/6269186_3c8cf2bb_120x120.jpg)


![Site of the Former Manchester Exchange Station. Looking to the west from the footbridge at the western end of Manchester Victoria Railway Station. In the 10 months since [[[3894695]]] was taken, overhead gantries have been added in preparatiuon for electrification of the line to Liverpool.At one time Manchester Victoria Station was connected across Victoria Street to Exchange Station which was built by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) in 1884. Following an extension to Exchange’s Platform 3 in 1929, taking it across the bridge to join Victoria’s Platform 1, the joint platform extended for 670 metres between the two stations, making it the longest passenger railway platform Europe; so long that it could accommodate three trains at once.Exchange Station closed in 1969 and was subsequently demolished; its services were transferred to Victoria. Most of its site opposite the cathedral is now a car park although some features can still be seen in this photograph including part of the joint platform and part of the trackbed, but the passenger footbridge, which can be seen in [[[3217882]]], has now been removed.Although called Manchester Exchange, the bulk of the station was to the west of the Irwell, putting it in Salford.http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/m/manchester_exchange/index.shtml Disused Stations: Manchester Exchange by David Dixon – 24 January 2015](https://s3.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/04/32/21/4322111_dd2a076c_120x120.jpg)















