Furness Vale railway station

Furness Vale
The station in 2005
Location
Place	Furness Vale
Local authority	High Peak
Grid reference	SK008835
Operations
Station code	FNV
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	11,969
2005/06	13,946
2006/07	12,978
2007/08	14,982
2008/09	16,372
2009/10	16,946
2010/11	18,384
2011/12	20,302
2012/13	20,736
2013/14	19,288
History
Key dates	Opened 1857 (1857)
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Furness Vale from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Furness Vale railway station in Derbyshire, England, is 15 ¹⁄₄ miles (24.5 km) south east of Manchester Piccadilly on the Manchester to Buxton line. It has a level crossing at the end of the platform controlled by a signal box.

The station is on the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge line, originally built by the London and North Western Railway to connect with the Cromford and High Peak Railway and extended to Buxton in 1863.

Service

There is generally an hourly service each day to Manchester Piccadilly (with one train on weekdays to/from Blackpool North, Clitheroe, Barrow-in-Furness, Bolton, Wigan North Western, Wigan Wallgate and Preston). Southbound there is an hourly service to Buxton. From December 2012 one weekday service in each direction no longer calls at Furness Vale, the 07:49 Buxton–Manchester Piccadilly and the 16:23 Manchester Piccadilly-Buxton.

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Train times and station information for Furness Vale railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Whaley Bridge		Northern Rail Buxton Line		New Mills Newtown

Railways in Derbyshire

Railway lines	█ Buxton Line █ Crewe to Derby Line █ Derwent Valley █ Erewash Valley █ Hope Valley █ Midland Main Line █ Robin Hood Line

Heritage and historic lines	Duffield Bank Railway Ecclesbourne Valley Railway GNR Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension Peak Rail Ripley Branch Midland Heritage Railway

Railway stations	Alfreton Ambergate Bamford Belper Buxton Chapel-en-le-Frith Chesterfield Chinley Creswell Cromford Derby Dinting Dove Holes Dronfield Duffield Edale Furness Vale Glossop Grindleford Hadfield Hathersage Hope Langley Mill Langwith-Whaley Thorns Long Eaton Matlock Bath Matlock New Mills Central Peartree New Mills Newtown Shirebrook Spondon Tutbury and Hatton Whaley Bridge Whatstandwell Whitwell Willington

Heritage Railways and their Stations	Bakewell (Proposed) Butterley Darley Dale Hammersmith Idridgehay Ironville (Proposed) Pye Bridge (Proposed) Matlock Riverside Matlock Ravenstor Riddings (Proposed) Rowsley South Rowsley (Proposed) Shottle Wirksworth

Current operators	█ CrossCountry █ East Midlands Trains █ TransPennine Express █ Northern

UK railway stations: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Coordinates: 53°20′56″N 1°59′20″W / 53.349°N 1.989°W / 53.349; -1.989

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