Hindlow railway station

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.

Hindlow
Location of Hindlow station (1999)
LocationHigh Peak
England
Coordinates53.2203°N 1.8729°W / 53.2203; -1.8729
Grid referenceSK086692
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyCromford and High Peak Railway
Pre-groupingLondon and North Western Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
June 1833Station opened for goods
July 1856Opened for passengers
December 1877closed
1 June 1894reopened LNWR
1 November 1954closed to scheduled services
7 October 1963Final closure[1]

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 30 October 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

Route
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Harpur Hill
Line and station closed		   London and North Western Railway
Cromford and High Peak Railway		   Dowlow Halt
Line and station closed

See also

References
  1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. The Ashbourne News and Dove Valley Record, 28 October and 4 November 1954. Available Derby Local Studies Library
  3. 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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