Place Buxton Grid reference SK059736 1 June 1863 (1863-06-01) Station opened Platforms in use 3 | Area High Peak Pre-grouping Midland Railway Original company Midland Railway | |
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Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway Similar Chapel‑en‑le‑Frith Central railway st, Heanor (GNR) railway st, Heanor (MR) railway st, Long Eaton (MCR) railway st, Clifton (Mayfield) railway st | ||
Buxton (Midland) railway station served the town of Buxton, Derbyshire, England between 1863 and 1967.
History
The station was opened by the Midland Railway (MR) on 1 June 1863. It was adjacent to, and to the south-east of, the Buxton railway station of the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway, which opened two weeks later. The two stations had similar end walls incorporating a large fan-shaped window.
The station was the terminus of the MR route from Derby. This route had opened as far as Rowsley on 4 June 1849; and was continued to Buxton in 1863. The station was 164 miles 55 chains (265.0 km) from St Pancras.
The station closed on 6 March 1967. Most of the station was subsequently demolished and the land used for a ring road. Part of the site including the trackbed of the tracks outside the station were occupied by the Buxton Steam Centre of the Peak Rail Heritage Railway in the 1970s who relaid track with ambitions to reopen the line towards Millers Dale. This plan failed and they moved their entire operations and stock to the section between Matlock, Darley Dale and Rowsley where they have successfully reopened the railway.