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Great Longstone for Ashford
The remains of Great Longstone for Ashford, showing the Monsal Trail and former platforms and station building
General information
LocationDerbyshire Dales
Owned byLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Line(s)Midland Railway
Key dates
1 June 1863Station opens as Longstone
1 October 1913renamed Great Longstone for Ashford
10 September 1962Closed to regular passenger services
6 March 1967Final closure
Monsal Trail
Legend
Midland Railway
← Buxton│Peak Forest →
 Topley Pike junction
Chee Tor No. 1 tunnel
Millers Dale
Millers Dale viaducts
Litton Tunnel
(
516 yd
472 m
)
 Cressbrook Tunnel
(
471 yd
431 m
)
 Monsal Dale
Headstone Viaduct
Headstone Tunnel
(
533 yd
487 m
)
 Great Longstone
Hassop
Bakewell
Coombs Road viaduct
(end of trail)
 Haddon Tunnel
(
1058 yd
967 m
)
(closed)
 Rowsley
(proposed extension)
 Rowsley South
Darley Dale
Matlock Riverside
Peak Rail line
Sources[1][2]

Great Longstone for Ashford railway station was a station which served Great and Little Longstone in the Peak District of Derbyshire. It was opened in 1863 by the Midland Railway on its extension of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway from Rowsley.

Originally known as Longstone railway station, in 1913 it was renamed Great Longstone for Ashford (Ashford-in-the-Water). Once the London, Midland and Scottish Railway reached Manchester the line carried expresses to London St Pancras and heavy mineral traffic.

It closed in 1962,[3] except that, for a short time, one train a day in each direction continued to stop to allow a local resident, Mrs A Boardman, to travel to work, an episode immortalised by the British Movietone film It Only Stops For Her. [4]

The building, designed to match the nearby Thornbridge Hall, survives as a domestic residence, and the trackbed through the station is part of the 8.5 miles (13.7 km) Monsal Trail, a walk and cycleway. Access to the Monsal Trail can be made at Great Longstone for Ashford railway station, via steps from in front of Thornbridge Hall and Thornbridge Outdoors (on a small paved track just off Longstone Lane).

Route

Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Monsal Dale   Monsal Trail   Hassop

References

  1. ^ "The Monsal Trail". A Taste of the Peak District. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. ^ Bickerdike, Graeme (June 2009). "The story of structures of the Monsal Trail: A Week in the Peak". Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  3. ^ Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
  4. ^ British Movietone News (1962) It only Stops For Her
  • Truman, P., Hunt, D., (1989) Midland Railway Portrait, Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing
  • Radford, B., (1988) Midland Though The Peak, Unicorn Books


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