Buxton railway station

Buxton
Buxton
	A Class 156 and a Class 150/2 unit at Buxton station in March 2010.
General information
Location	Buxton, High Peak ; England
Coordinates	53°15′40″N1°54′47″W / 53.261°N 1.913°W
Grid reference	SK059737
Managed by	Northern Trains
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	BUX
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
15 June 1863	Station opened
Passengers
2019/20	0.344 million

Last updated December 02, 2024

253⁄4 miles (41.4 km) south-east of Manchester Piccadilly and is the terminus of the Buxton line.

History

Two railways arrived in Buxton almost simultaneously in 1863. The Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway, heavily promoted by the London and North Western Railway (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 two railways planned separate stations, but the town's leaders were concerned that the railway would damage the character of the place and requested that they be built side by side and be in-keeping with the existing architecture of the town. Consequently, the LNWR and Midland station were given identical frontages designed by Joseph Paxton, each being built from local stone and having a wrought iron glazed train shed roof, fronted with identical half-circle fan widows.^[1]

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 and part of the old Ashbourne Line (closed to passengers in October 1954), which remains in use to serve a lime works at Dowlow and the quarry at Hindlow. These both join the main line just outside the station, where there also a number of sidings to allow trains to reverse. The bay platform formerly used by Ashbourne line trains and the connecting curve from it towards Dowlow have been removed, though it is still possible to trace its route. The LNWR station now handles local trains into Manchester, using its line through Dove Holes and Chapel-en-le-Frith.

The trainshed roof of the remaining station was removed, leaving only the fan window and its stonework at the end of the station as a remnant. In 2009 the fan window was restored to its former glory.^[1]

Accidents

A runaway limestone train demolished the boiler room and gents' toilet and damaged the porters' room in 1897, killing a passenger and injuring a porter.^[2]
A LNWR Class B boiler blew up in the station yard on 11 November 1921, killing the driver and fireman.^[3]

Facilities

The station is fully staffed, with a self-service ticket machine also available for use outside the ticket office opening times and for collecting pre-paid tickets. A payphone, waiting room and toilets are all provided in the main building, whilst platform 1 has a waiting shelter and bench seating. Step-free access is available to both platforms from the main entrance.^[4] In November 2022, Buxton became the first station in Derbyshire to install dementia-friendly signage.^[5]

Services

Until May 2018, there was an hourly service daily (including Sundays) between Buxton and Manchester Piccadilly, taking about one hour. The service frequency was enhanced to about half-hourly in the morning and evening peaks. A limited number of trains worked through beyond Manchester, with trains to/from Blackpool North, Clitheroe, Barrow-in-Furness, Wigan North Western, Preston and Kirkby.^[6]

From 21 May 2018, two trains per hour started running between Manchester and Buxton all day, one of which omits certain stations en route. The evening and Sunday service remains hourly and there are no longer any through trains north of Manchester.^[7]

The service is currently (2023) hourly during the day and evening, with additional trains in the morning and evening peaks.^[8]

Platform 2 is the main platform for arrivals and departures. Platform 1 is a departure platform by shunt move, which is usually used in early mornings by the first trains of the day.

Preceding station		National Rail	Following station
Terminus		Northern Buxton line	Dove Holes
	Disused railways
Terminus		LNWR Ashbourne line	Higher Buxton
Terminus		Cromford and High Peak Railway	Ladmanlow

Future

Network Rail has proposed, in their North West route-specific utilisation strategy (RUS), installing a facing cross-over which will allow platform 1 to become fully operational as an arrival and departure platform. Doing this will reduce the number of shunt moves.

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References

1 2 "Buxton (Midland)". Disused Stations. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
↑ "What the railways are doing". Railway Magazine. September 1897. p. 282. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
↑ "Accident at Buxton on 11th November 1921 :: The Railways Archive". www.railwaysarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2016.
↑ Buxton station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 17 May 2017
↑ Ash, Joseph (5 November 2022). "Say hello to Derbyshire's first dementia-friendly railway station". DerbyshireLive. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
↑ Table 86 National Rail timetable, May 2017
↑ Table 86 National Rail timetable, May 2018
↑ "Summer 2023 Timetables (Timetable No N20)". Northern Railway. Archived from the original on 27 July 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2023.

Bibliography

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

External links

Train times and station information for Buxton railway station from National Rail
English Heritage – Buxton station frontage

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[DSbux-1] 1 2 "Buxton (Midland)". Disused Stations. Retrieved 21 May 2020.

[:0-2] "What the railways are doing". Railway Magazine. September 1897. p. 282. Retrieved 15 December 2016.

[3] "Accident at Buxton on 11th November 1921 :: The Railways Archive". www.railwaysarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2016.

[4] Buxton station facilities National Rail Enquiries; Retrieved 17 May 2017

[5] Ash, Joseph (5 November 2022). "Say hello to Derbyshire's first dementia-friendly railway station". DerbyshireLive. Retrieved 5 November 2022.

[6] Table 86 National Rail timetable, May 2017

[7] Table 86 National Rail timetable, May 2018

[8] "Summer 2023 Timetables (Timetable No N20)". Northern Railway. Archived from the original on 27 July 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2023.

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v t e Railways in Derbyshire
Railway lines	█ Buxton line █ Crewe–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 Ilkeston Langley Mill Langwith-Whaley Thorns Long Eaton Matlock Bath Matlock New Mills Central New Mills Newtown Peartree Shirebrook Spondon Tutbury & Hatton Whaley Bridge Whatstandwell Whitwell Willington
Heritage railway stations	Butterley Darley Dale Duffield Hammersmith Idridgehay Matlock Riverside Matlock Ravenstor Rowsley South Shottle Wirksworth
Current operators	█ CrossCountry █ East Midlands Railway █ Northern Trains █ TransPennine Express
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