MANCHESTER, KANSAS

5:00am Westbound No. 51 Daily Except Sunday Doodlebug Emporia to Concordia First and Strong City Districts
6:35am Westbound No. 73 Daily Except Sunday Mixed Neva to Superior, Nebraska. Strong City District
7:28am Westbound No. 55 Sunday only Mixed Emporia to Concordia First and Strong City Districts
7:30am Westbound No.85 Mixed from Manchester to Barnard on the Minneapolis District
1:35pm Eastbound No. 86 Mixed from Barnard to Manchester on the Minneapolis District
1:50pm Eastbound No. 52 Daily except Sunday Doodlebug Emporia from Concordia First and Strong City Districts
1:50 pm Eastbound No. 56 Sunday only Mixed Emporia from Concordia First and Strong City Districts
3:26pm Eastbound No. 74 Daily except Sunday Neva from Superior, Nebraska Strong City District
Manchester being a junction point for the Minneapolis district off of the Strong City district was a busy place. Note that Nos. 51 and 52 were replaced on Sunday's with Mixed trains Nos. 55 and 56. Nos 73 and 74 operated over the entire district as Mixed trains.

The Manchester depot has found its way to the west side of Abilene, Kansas. It looks on the surface to be in pretty good shape and is reported to be, Ugggg!, an office for a septic business; not a favorite reuse topic. It is located on Van Buren between SW 3rd and 4th. One would think that it is a remodeled version of a Santa Fe standard depot. However this may be the original appearance of the structure. The Minneapolis depot appears to be of a similar identical design. The Minneapolis depot is shown on page 52 of Joe McMillian's Wheat LInes and Super Freights.