Buxton railway station (Derbyshire)

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Buxton
Location
Place	Buxton
Local authority	High Peak
Operations
Station code	BUX
Managed by	Northern Rail
Platforms in use	2
Live departures and station information from National Rail
Annual Rail Passenger Usage
2004/05 *	0.225 million
2005/06 *	0.260 million
History
Key dates	Opened 1863
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* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Buxton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.
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Buxton railway station is a railway station that serves the town of Buxton in Derbyshire. It is managed and served by Northern Rail. The station is 41 km (25¾ miles) south east of Manchester Piccadilly and is the terminus of the Buxton Line.

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.

[edit] Services

There is generally an hourly service each day (every half-hour during the morning and evening peaks - to Manchester Piccadilly with most services continuing to Blackpool North)

Platform 1 is a Departure Platform by Shunt Move. It is usually used in early mornings by the first trains of the day which stable in the platform overnight.

It is also used around 6pm: on arrival trains are shunted into the platform so that 2 carriages can be detached from 4 car formations for overnight stabling. 2 car units are also shunted there when not required to work any further services for the rest of the day or in the coming few hours.

Platform 2 is the main platform for most arrivals and departures

[edit] Future

From December 2008 when the West Coast main line timetable is revamped, The Buxton-Blackpool service will be divided. The two services which will be created from the split will be:

• Manchester Victoria To Blackpool North
• Manchester Piccadilly To Buxton

consequently there will be no longer be a direct service between Buxton and Blackpool and passengers will need to transfer between the two Manchester stations or use Transpennine express services between Manchester Piccadilly and Blackpool.

[edit] 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

[edit] External links

• Train times and station information for Buxton railway station (Derbyshire) from National Rail
• "Picture the Past" Midland railway station
• "Picture the Past" Train in Ashwood Dale showing typical terrain for this line.
• English Heritage - Buxton station frontage

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