sentences:  Express services out of Manchester Central continued to use the line until that terminus was closed in 1969 following the Beeching cuts.For another two decades the line was used by freight trains until the line closed completely in 1988, with the stations sidings being used by the London Brick Company.The site (including the former goods yard) has, after a number of years as a bar, been redeveloped as is now occupied by an apartment block and a Sainsbury's supermarket.