Middleton railway station served the town of Middleton, in Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England, between 1857 and 1965. It was a stop on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR).
History The station was opened on 5 January 1857, when the L&YR opened a branch line to serve the town from .
It was located to the south-east of the junction of Oldham Road (now the A669) and Townley Street.
Originally, the station had a single platform but was rebuilt with two in 1885-86. There were goods lines on both sides of the main running lines and a goods shed to the south. The goods yard was able to accommodate most types of goods including live stock and was equipped with a five-ton crane.
A cotton shed, described on the map as a goods shed, opened in about 1907; it had a railway link into Neva Cotton Mills.
The station was closed to passengers on 7 September 1964 and completely on 11 October 1965 when the branch also closed.
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