and curving to the left and right to form a triangular junction with the MS&LR. The left fork then traversed of MS&LR track from Stockport Junction (later Guide Bridge Junction) into MS&LR station. The right fork led onto the MS&LR main line to at Audenshaw Junction. There were two short tunnels, the Ashton (Oldham Road) Tunnel of between Oldham Road station and Park Bridge and Oldham Tunnel of between Sheepwashes Lane and Clegg Street. In 1876 the LNWR opened a link to , running south west from Crowthorne Junction (just north of Canal Junction), crossing over the MS&LR main line then south to and Stockport. The GCR, as the MS&LR had now become, installed a south to west curve link just north of Ashton Moss, creating a triangular junction with the L&YR, it opened on 18 December 1911. The canal curve between Canal Junction and Audenshaw Junction was used infrequently and was removed as early as 1938. In 1952 the lower half of the line was electrified between and Ashton Moss North Junction signal box to facilitate freight trains coming off the Woodhead line. Whilst most of the former OA&GB line is closed the former GCR line through Guide Bridge and the former L&YR line through Ashton remain open. The remaining section of the OA&GB that is open for freight and occasional diversions is the link from , onto the former OA&GB line through what had been Ashton Moss and taking the south to west curve onto the former GCR line. Later management and closure The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway became the Great Central Railway (GCR) on 1 August 1897, as part of the legal tidying up as a consequence of the change, the Great Central & London & North Western Joint Committee was set up in 1905, to administer various undertakings jointly owned by those two railways, including the OA&GB. The OA&GB was not affected by the grouping of 1923 remaining an independent joint line but now its lease was between the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway. In 1948 OA&GB was nationalised and became part of British Railways. The passenger service was withdrawn on 4 May 1959. At the same time a parcel concentration depot was being built on the goods yard site, it opened shortly after, goods services were withdrawn on 29 January 1968, except for a private siding at