Buxton (Midland) railway station

Buxton
The two stations at Buxton; the Midland station is in the centre
Location
Place	Buxton
Area	High Peak
Coordinates	53°15′35″N 1°54′45″W / 53.2598°N 1.9126°W / 53.2598; -1.9126Coordinates: 53°15′35″N 1°54′45″W / 53.2598°N 1.9126°W / 53.2598; -1.9126
Grid reference	SK059736
Operations
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	3
History
1 June 1863 (1863-06-01)	Station opened
3 March 1967 (1967-03-03)	Station closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
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Buxton (Midland) railway station served the town of Buxton, Derbyshire, England between 1863 and 1967.

The Buxton Steam Centre of the Peak Railway Preservation Society as it was in March 1990 before closure

History

A 1904 Railway Clearing House Junction Diagram showing (lower right) railways in the vicinity of Buxton (Midland Railway in green)

The station was opened by the Midland Railway (MR) on 1 June 1863.^[1] It was adjacent to, and to the south-east of, the Buxton railway station of the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway,^[2] which opened two weeks later.^[1] The two stations had similar end walls incorporating a large fan-shaped window.^[2]

The station was the terminus of the MR route from Derby. This route had opened as far as Rowsley on 4 June 1849;^[3] and was continued to Buxton in 1863.^[4] The station was 164 miles 55 chains (265.0 km) from St Pancras.^[5]

The station closed on 6 March 1967.^[1] Most of the station was subsequently demolished and the land used for a ring road. Part of the site including the trackbed of the tracks outside the station were occupied by the Buxton Steam Centre of the Peak Rail Heritage Railway in the 1970s who relaid track with ambitions to reopen the line towards Millers Dale. This plan failed and they moved their entire operations and stock to the section between Matlock, Darley Dale and Rowsley where they have successfully reopened the railway.

Notes

1 2 3 Butt 1995, p. 50.
1 2 Biddle 1981, fig. 9.
↑ Ellis 1961, p. 18.
↑ Ellis 1961, p. 36.
↑ Kay 1998, Sheet 15.

References

Biddle, Gordon (1981). Railway Stations in the North West. Clapham, Yorkshire: Dalesman. ISBN 0-85206-644-9.
Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
Ellis, Cuthbert Hamilton (1961) [1953]. The Midland Railway (4th ed.). Hampton Court: Ian Allan. 940/554/125 1059.
Midland Railway System Maps (The Distance Diagrams), volume 2 - Leeds to Leicester and branches; Derby to Manchester and branches; Cheshire Lines (1909-1923 ed.). Teignmouth: Peter Kay. 1998. ISBN 1-899890-17-3.

External links

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Terminus		Midland Railway Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway		Peak Forest Line and station closed
Terminus				Blackwell Mill Line and station closed

Closed railway stations in Derbyshire

Ashbourne Line	Higher Buxton Hartington Alsop en le Dale Tissington Thorpe Cloud Ashbourne Clifton (Mayfield) Norbury and Ellaston

Cromford and High Peak Railway	Shallcross Ladmanlow Hindlow Dowlow Halt Hurdlow Parsley Hay Hopton Top Wharf Steeplehouse Cromford (C&HPR)

Manchester, Buxton, Matlock & Midland Jcn Rly	Buxton (Midland) Peak Forest Millers Dale Monsal Dale Longstone Great Longstone for Ashford Hassop Bakewell Rowsley

Sheffield & Midland C'ttee	Birch Vale Hayfield

Woodhead Line	Crowden Woodhead

Ashover Light Railway	Ashover Butts Salter Lane Fallgate Milltown Dale Bank Woolley Hurst Lane Stretton Clay Lane Springfield (Derbyshire) Holmgate Chesterfield Road Claycross and Egstow

North Midland Railway	Eckington and Renishaw Barrow Hill Whittington Clay Cross Stretton Wingfield Derby Nottingham Road

GNR Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension	Egginton Junction Etwall Mickleover Derby Friargate Breadsall West Hallam Ilkeston North Heanor (GNR) Marlpool

Ripley and Heanor Branch Lines	Ripley Denby Kilburn Coxbench Little Eaton Crosshill and Codnor Heanor (MR) Langley Mill (Branch)

Melbourne Line	Sinfin North Sinfin Central Chellaston and Swarkestone Melbourne

Castle Donington Line	Weston-on-Trent Castle Donington and Shardlow

Midland Counties Railway	Borrowash Draycott and Breaston Sawley Long Eaton (MCR)

Erewash Valley Line	Doe Hill Westhouses and Blackwell Pye Bridge Codnor Park and Ironville Shipley Gate Ilkeston Town Ilkeston Junction and Cossall Trowell Stanton Gate Stapleford and Sandiacre Trent

Pinxton Branch Line	Eastwood and Langley Mill

Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway	Chesterfield Market Place Arkwright Town Bolsover South Scarcliffe Shirebrook North Upperthorpe and Killamarsh Spinkhill Clowne South Creswell and Welbeck

GCR Main Line and Chesterfield Loop	Chesterfield Central Sheepbridge and Brimington Staveley Works Grassmoor Staveley Central Killamarsh Central Renishaw Central Heath Pilsley Tibshelf Town

Clowne and Doe Lea Branches	Staveley Town Clowne and Barlborough Bolsover Castle Palterton and Sutton Glapwell Rowthorn and Hardwick

Other	Buxworth Chapel-en-le-Frith Central Egginton Fairfield Halt Gresley Ramsline Halt Hazelwood Pinxton and Selston Sheepbridge Swadlincote Tibshelf & Newton Whiteborough Woodville (Derbyshire) Unstone

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