The down platform of Ashton Park Parade station was located on what is now a grass site to the south of Ashton's Park Parade Bypass and before the construction of the Bypass the down platform was approached directly from the end of Warrington Street where there was a large cobbled yard for passenger and parcel vehicles.

The up platform stood on the edge of the escarpment, supported by arches and overlooking Lower Wharf Street.

These sidings occupied the land where the Bypass runs between the Parish Church and the railway line with the only remaining signs of the sidings being two wooden buildings in Church Street which once served the goods yard.

The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

The building of the Ashton by-pass sealed the fate of this station which cut it off from the towns main shopping street.