Stations remaining open for parcels after line closure

[delt1c]

I know under BR some stations remained open for RedStar parcels operation after the line had closed to passengers. Just wondering if any stayed open for parcel collection and delivery after total line closures.

 

[Dr Hoo]

Well, Birmingham Curzon Street closed to regular passenger services in the 19th century but had a rebirth as a major parcels depot (with C&D) around 1967 and lasted pretty much to the end of such activities. Red Star was at New Street, of course.

 

[mailbyrail]

Of course if you include the rebirth of former passenger stations you can include Manchester Mayfield, Nottingham London Road Low Level, London Bricklayers Arms, Liverpool Wavertree. Other passenger stations were the size they were almost entirely for parcels - Bradford Forster Square and Bolton were two that spring to mind.

 

[Ken H]

Of course if you include the rebirth of former passenger stations you can include Manchester Mayfield, Nottingham London Road Low Level, London Bricklayers Arms, Liverpool Wavertree. Other passenger stations were the size they were almost entirely for parcels - Bradford Forster Square and Bolton were two that spring to mind.

was Wolverhampton Low Level the same?
Its now a wedding venue!!!!

 

[Altfish]

I'm fairly sure that Manchester Exchange remained open after closure but not sure if it was just newspapers rather than parcels.

 

[delt1c]

What prompted me was Bathgate Upper, Closed to passengers in 1956 but remained for Parcel, then in 1982 Bathgate to Airdrie closed and lifted so Station had no tracks left through it

 

[deltic]

Line to Gosport remained open for parcel traffic after closure to passengers

 

[Malcmal]

Hawick station definitely qualifies as proven in this clip of the classic Ian Nairn series "Nairn Across Britain".

 

[delt1c]

Hawick station definitely qualifies as proven in this clip of the classic Ian Nairn series "Nairn Across Britain".

This is what I was looking for, thanks

 

[mailbyrail]

Another former passenger station that survived as a Parcels Concentration Depot was Oldham Clegg Street.

Checking the BR 1975 Parcels Numerical Sorting System instructions also lists 10 agencies which offered TCF facilities
Alford, Cardigan, Galashiels, Hawick, Kelso, Maesteg, Matlock, Milford Haven, Peebles, Pembroke Dock
None were railway stations although three of them were on lines with unstaffed stations

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Would Leeds Whitehall qualify? I'd became the parcels/mail area of the new Leeds City station in the 1950s until part of it (Platform W, now Platform 1) was returned to passenger use in the 1990s.

 

[Brush 4]

Possibly Yeovil Town and Staines West. Yeovil certainly kept its Refreshment Room after closure, for coaches for a short while until demolition in 1973. Perhaps parcels as well.

 

[Clarence Yard]

Newport, I.O.W. was another. It stayed in use as a parcels depot after the line closed in 1966 until the Council C.P.O.'d it in 1970/1 for building the by-pass when, iirc, the parcels depot moved to Ryde Esplanade.