Hyde Central station doesn't look much more loved than Hyde North just down the way. The front of the station, below a large welcome sign is bricked up:
A long view south along the front of the station. Ahead is the car park and entrance to the platforms and immediately to our right is an underpass under the railway:
Looking under the bridge:
Walking to the end of the car park we get to the ramped entrance to platform 2:
On platform 2 through the gate on the right, we look north along the platform:
Looking past the shelter at the northern end of platform 2:
Towards the southern end of platform 2, looking back north at the shelter and the disused stretch of platform 1 on the left:
Looking south along the line from the end of platform 2:
To get to the other platform one has to go back to the car park area at the front of the station and go through the subway:
The exit from the subway on the platform 1 side:
Steps lead up from the subway to platform 1:
The subway steps lead up on to platform 1 next to the shelter, here looking north:
At the southern end of platform 1 looking north:
Looking south we see the shelter opposite and beyond a fence there's a disused stretch of platform:
Weeds grow through the cracks in the disused stretch of platform 1:
Walking all the way to the other end of the platform we look south:
At this end of the platform we can look north over the bridge:
There's also an exit:
Steps leading up to this entrance:
The entrance to platform 1 from ground level:
All photographs are © Alexandra Lanes You may reproduce them anywhere for any purpose. Coastline maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey © Crown copyright 2001