later in the 1960s. Soon after, on 13 March 1964, saw the pulling up and scrapping of the rails and other railway goods on the Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway. The Chadderton goods and coal depot remained open at this stage as a short freight only branch from Middleton Junction. Over the years the rest of the line which went to the Chadderton depot was closed and scrapped, and the countryside slowly took over. Over 40 years later the landscape has irreversibly changed back to other uses: apart from an area where the old line entered a cutting, and where the old Johnny Whitehead Bridge () could still be used as a crossing point for ramblers until the recent advent of the construction of the Foxdenton Business Park. References Further reading Companies based in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Early British railway companies Closed railway lines in North West England Railway lines opened in 1842 Chadderton 1842 establishments in England Closed railway lines in Greater Manchester