Disused Railway Track
Industrial
Disused Railway Track is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Shaw. It received industrial waste from 1985, covering about 1.09 hectares. Reference EAHLD15798, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD15798 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Disused Railway Track |
| Address | Moorhey Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | P Casey Plant Hire Limited |
| Licence issued | 22 July 1985 |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | Not recorded |
| Last waste input | Not recorded |
| Area | 1.09 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | South NW |
| Grid reference | 393800, 410500 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
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What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.