Hyde Road was a railway station in Gorton, Manchester, England, on the Fallowfield Loop Line. It opened in 1892 and closed in 1958, when local passenger services on the line were withdrawn. The station was sometimes advertised as Hyde Road for Belle Vue, given its close proximity to Belle Vue Zoo which was about one mile away. The line was closed completely in 1988 and the track was taken up. The station has long since been demolished and the site was partly redeveloped. The former trackbed is now a popular shared use path called the Fallowfield Loop. The station was named after Hyde Road, which begins at the east end of Ardwick Green South in Ardwick and runs east towards Hyde. At the boundary between Gorton and Audenshaw, it continues as Manchester Road. History The initial section of the Fallowfield Loop line was opened by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Cheshire Lines Committee) between and on 1 October 1891. The following year, the remaining section between Fallowfield and Fairfield, including Hyde Road station, opened on 2 May 1892. The line provided a new route for the MS&LR to run trains from into Manchester; local stopping services ran from Fairfield and on the Hope Valley line to Manchester Central via Hyde Road, Fallowfield and before joining a section of line from to Manchester Central. Hyde Road station comprised a set of brick buildings on an embankment on the north side of Hyde Road. The northbound platforms were mostly wooden structures. The Great Central Railway built two bay platforms at Hyde Road to accommodate excursion trains to Belle Vue Zoo, which were in use until at least 1914 but were eventually taken out of use. The station had a large goods yard on its east side, consisting of four sidings and a five-ton crane, controlled by a signalbox on the northbound platform, and a second box controlling the north junction to Gorton. These were later replaced by a single new box on the west side of the line. In 1897, the MSLR became the Great Central Railway and, in 1923, the line was absorbed into the LNER. Over this period, the Fallowfield Loop line suffered from competition from faster rail services into Manchester provided by the LNER, from or , and later further competition arrived in the form of the Manchester Corporation Tramways. By the 1930s, the LNER had greatly reduced