#exchange station

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Victoria Bus Station, Salford

Taken from the high vantage point of Exchange Station Approach, this view looks over Victoria Bus Station and down Chapel Street. 

From left to right the GEC Building demolished in the early 1960s, the Old Ship Hotel and behind that the massive telephone exchange of Dial House. 

In the mid far distance, Threlfall's brewery can just be made out. 

On the right is the large shed of Exchange Railway Station. 

A Salford City Transport bus passes the bus station on it's way to Bolton on service 12 having just left it's terminus in Greengate, underneath Exchange Station.

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Time! by Tony

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View from CIS building 

1972

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Exchange Station, Manchester

3rd December 1968

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Exchange Station, Victoria Buildings and part of Deansgate, Manchester   

1926

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Railway Clearing House 1910 map of central Manchester showing the railway system at that date and the position of Exchange station at the end of the LNWR line from Liverpool via Eccles (marked in red)

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Cathedral and Exchange Station, Manchester

1920

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Manchester Exchange station and Victoria bus station  

May 1969 ca.

The centre of the photo is dominated by the statue of Oliver Cromwell, put here in 1875 and moved to Wythenshawe Hall in the 1980s (and by the way, its existence much offended Queen Victoria). To the right in the traffic island we see steps down to a gentleman's convenience, guarded by elaborate railings: and to the right of that we see a red Manchester City Transport bus, which has just left its Victoria railway station terminus and is one its way to Reddish.

Behind Oliver Cromwell is Salford City Transport's Victoria bus station, full of Salford's green and cream buses, just inside Salford's borough boundary across the river Irwell from Manchester, but handy for Manchester City centre. One of the buses, almost hidden behind another one and a lamp-post, handily dates the photo to 1961 or 1962 because in 1961 a couple of Salford's buses were painted in a reversed cream and green style for a municipal anniversary. To the left on Victoria Bridge Street, a Salford Leyland PD1 'Titan' bus picks up passenger on the number 9 service to Walkden.

Manchester Exchange railway station broods on the skyline - damaged in the Christmas blitz of 1940.