Buxton railway station

This article is about the railway station in Buxton, Derbyshire. For the former Midland Railway station in Buxton, Derbyshire, see Buxton (Midland) railway station. For the Bure Valley Railway Station in Buxton, Norfolk, see Buxton (Norfolk) railway station.

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General information
Location	High Peak
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BUX
History
Original company	Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
15 June 1863 (1863-06-15)	Station opened

Buxton railway station is a railway station that serves the town of Buxton in Derbyshire, England. It is managed and served by Northern Rail. The station is 25+3⁄4 miles (41.4 km) south east of Manchester Piccadilly and is the terminus of the Buxton Line.

Services

There is generally an hourly service daily (including Sundays) between Buxton and Manchester Piccadilly, taking about one hour. The service frequency is enhanced to about half-hourly in the morning and evening peaks. A limited number of trains (currently seven on weekdays in total) work through beyond Manchester, with one train each of to/from Blackpool North, Clitheroe, Barrow-in-Furness, Wigan North Western, Wigan Wallgate, Preston and Bolton.

Platform 2 is the main platform for arrivals and departures. Platform 1 is a departure platform by shunt move, which is usually used in early mornings by the first trains of the day which have been stabled overnight or when attachment/detachment of a unit to/from a formation is required.

Future

Network Rail has proposed, in their North West RUS, installing a facing cross-over which will allow platform 1 to become fully operational as an arrival and departure platform. Doing this will reduce the number of shunt moves.

History

Two railways arrived in Buxton almost simultaneously in 1863. The Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway, heavily promoted by the LNWR, built its line from Manchester to Whaley Bridge and extended it to Buxton. Meanwhile, the Midland Railway extended the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway from Rowsley. When the Midland extended its main line to New Mills in 1867, to bypass the LNWR, Buxton became a branch line from Millers Dale. The stations were side by side, with identical frontages designed by J. Smith with guidance from Joseph Paxton, each having a wrought iron glazed train shed.

The Midland station closed in 1967, along with the line to Rowsley, and the site is now a roadway. However, the line through Dove Holes Tunnel from Chinley is still used for freight, such as limestone from Tunstead, along with the old Midland branch into Buxton. The LNWR station now handles local trains into Manchester, using its line through Dove Holes and Chapel-en-le-Frith.

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  Fan window.
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  BR Class 104 DMU in the snow, 24 December 1978.
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  Station exterior in 1965. The present station is on the left, and the former Midland Railway station, now closed, is in the centre of the picture.

References

• Radford, B., (1988) Midland Though The Peak Unicorn Books
• Pevsner, Nikolaus (1953) (revised Elizabeth Williamson 1978). The Buildings of England: Derbyshire. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-071008-6

External links

• Train times and station information for Buxton railway station from National Rail
• English Heritage - Buxton station frontage

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Terminus		Northern Rail Buxton Line		Dove Holes