Hindlow railway station

Hindlow
Location of Hindlow station (1999)
Location
Area	High Peak
Coordinates	53°13′13″N 1°52′22″W / 53.2203°N 1.8729°W / 53.2203; -1.8729Coordinates: 53°13′13″N 1°52′22″W / 53.2203°N 1.8729°W / 53.2203; -1.8729
Grid reference	SK086692
Operations
Original company	Cromford and High Peak Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
History
June 1833	Station opened for goods
July 1856	Opened for passengers
December 1877	closed
1 June 1894	reopened LNWR
1 November 1954	closed to scheduled services
7 October 1963	Final closure^[1]
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Hindlow railway station was opened for goods in 1833 near to Hindlow near King Sterndale to the south east of Buxton, Derbyshire on the Cromford and High Peak Railway (which ran from Whaley Bridge to Cromford) and the LNWR line to Ashbourne and the south.

History

The Cromford and High Peak Railway goods station opened in 1833. It was opened for passengers in 1856 but closed in 1877.

A new station was opened in 1894 by the LNWR when it built its branch to Ashbourne from a junction at Parsley Hay

At this time the C&HPR line to Whaley Bridge was closed. Just before the station there was a junction to a stub of the old line which continued to serve the Hillhead branch. The junction was known as the Buxton and High Peak Junction, not to be confused with High Peak Junction at the other end of the C&HPR near Cromford.

Like all the stations on the line the platforms and buildings were of timber construction. Regular passenger services on the line finished on Saturday October 30, 1954.^[2] Occasional special passenger trains used the station until 7 October 1963 when the station was closed completely. The station was removed in 1966.

At Hindlow was a sidings for Ryan, Somerville and Company, and another for W.Spencer and Company (later Buxton Lime Firms Ltd.) These were two of the many lime works served by this stretch of line, which covered everything with a patina of white powder which on many photographs from this era is mistaken for snow. This section still exists, serving the lime works at Dowlow.^[3]

After a fairly easy stretch of 1 in 330 from Beswick's Sidings, the line began to climb again at 1 in 60 through Hindlow Tunnel to the summit at Brigg's Sidings and Dowlow Halt

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Route

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Harpur Hill		Cromford and High Peak Railway		Dowlow Halt

References

↑ Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
↑ The Ashbourne News and Dove Valley Record, October 28 and November 4, 1954. Available Derby Local Studies Library
↑ Jacobs, G., (Ed.) (2005) Railway Track Diagrams Book 4: Midlands and North West, Bradford-on-Avon: Trackmaps

Bibliography

Bentley, J.M., Fox, G.K., (1997) Railways of the High Peak: Buxton to Ashbourne (Scenes From The Past series 32), Romiley: Foxline Publishing

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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