The train station was built on an old cemetery and has a network of passageways running deep underneath
A lost world lies beneath a Manchester train station that thousands of passengers use every day - oblivious to its existence.
As the station expanded, the Irk disappeared underneath and the site was built on top of the nearby cemetery and church that occupied Walkers Croft. Another of the features to disappear was a wooden footbridge known as the 'cattle bridge' - that would have been used to transport cattle into the city's meat markets.
Lying 20ft below the station, the bridge is now covered over and said to be used as a utility tunnel. Also found underneath the station are steps leading up to the reputed entrance of the old Walkers Croft graveyard, as well as the bricked up door to an old subway which ran northwards underneath the station platforms.Keith writes: "Excavations for the subway went through the graveyard where the coffins were left in situ. In 1847 people standing on the platforms complained about the unpleasant smell coming from the graveyard below.
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