A corner of the former Maccesfield Joint Committee (N Staffs/GCR) goods yard known as 'Exchange Sidings' on the line to Bollington and Marple intrudes into one corner of my layout, so I modeled it as non-connected sidings.
However, I could find only distant views of the 1870s temporary station, later used as a stable then a garage; the best is this 1936 view peeping over a roofless engine shed after a fire at Hibel Road. It may have been demolished about 1947, leaving only the platform remnants, but with a little modeller's license I've kept it to provide some foreground interest.
There was also a cattle dock, but no picture shows any fencing so it may have been disused.
(Photo W A Camwell)
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