Brinnington is a small station to the east of Manchester, dating from 1977 and with fairly spartan facilities to match. Still, it does have a station building with a ticket counter:
Inside the station building looking at the turnstile with the station front beyond:
The rear of the Brinnington station building, from where the footbridge heads over to platform 2 on the right, with steps down to platform 1 behind us:
At the bottom of the steps that lead up from platform 1 to the ticket office:
The shelter on platform 1:
The shelter has a small narrow vertical slot in its side:
At the eastern end of platform 1 looking west:
Looking east from the end of the operational part of platform 1 at a substantial length of disused platform:
Over at the other end of platform 1 looking at the footbridge and road bridge beyond:
Back up to the ticket office and then on to the footbridge which spans the tracks and provides access to platform 2:
From the footbridge we can look east at both platforms, with platform 1 on the right for stations towards Manchester and platform 2 on the left for trains heading the other way towards Sheffield:
Looking west from the footbridge at the road bridge that crosses the line:
At the far end of the footbridge steps lead down to platform 2:
The entrance to platform 2, showing the shelter with its strange vertical slot:
Platform 2 seen from platform 1:
On platform 2 looking east:
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