Higher Buxton railway station

Higher Buxton railway station was opened in 1894 to the south east of Buxton, Derbyshire, on the LNWR line to Ashbourne and the south .

Higher Buxton
Station location (1995)
Location
PlaceBuxton
AreaHigh Peak
Operations
Original companyLondon and North Western Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms2
History
1 June 1894Station opened
2 April 1951Station closed[1]
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

It utilised part of the Cromford and High Peak Railway (which ran from Whaley Bridge to Cromford), joining it at Hindlow and proceeding to a branch to Ashbourne at Parsley Hay

On leaving its bay at Buxton LNWR station, it turned through a tight 180-degree curve southwards across a thirteen-arch skew viaduct 87 feet high over the Midland line and Spring Gardens, with an uphill gradient of 1 in 62.

The station was located next to Clifton Road, and between it and Dale Road was an extensive goods yard which had been opened in 1891 as part of the scheme to link Buxton with the new High Peak Junction near Cromford.

Like all the stations on the line the platforms and buildings were of timber construction. Passenger services on the line finished in 1954. This station, however, had never been very busy, being so close to the main station, and it closed in 1951.

On leaving the station, the line continued its punishing climb across the thirteen arch Duke's Drive Viaduct on its way to Harpur Hill thence to Beswick's Sidings, where the gradient eased to 1 in 330 as far as Hindlow.

The line, now single, remains open for mineral trains serving the lime works at Dowlow.[2]

See also

References
  1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. 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

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