Whaley Bridge railway station

Whaley Bridge

Location
Place	Whaley Bridge
Local authority	High Peak
Coordinates	53°19′48″N 1°59′06″W / 53.33°N 1.985°W / 53.33; -1.985Coordinates: 53°19′48″N 1°59′06″W / 53.33°N 1.985°W / 53.33; -1.985
Grid reference	SK011815
Operations
Station code	WBR
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	92,650
2011/12	94,844
2012/13	110,822
2013/14	121,588
2014/15	123,536
History
Original company	Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
9 June 1857	Station opened
National Rail – UK railway stations

* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Whaley Bridge from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Whaley Bridge railway station serves the town of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Manchester-Buxton Line 16 ¹⁄₄ miles (26.2 km) south east of Manchester Piccadilly.

Originally the station, opened on 9 June 1857,^[1] was on the Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway, built by the London and North Western Railway to connect with the Cromford and High Peak Railway and extended to Buxton in 1863. The station is unusual for the line in that its platform one, where the main station building and ticket office is sited, is on the side for trains bound for Buxton, whereas platform two serves trains to Manchester. The platform is on a tight curve and is some 30 cm too low for the height of the carriages used, making it difficult to access for people with mobility problems.

The station enjoys the support of the local community in the form of Friends of Whaley Bridge Station, a voluntary group dedicated to improving and maintaining the station buildings and grounds.

Service

There is generally an hourly service each day to Manchester Piccadilly (with one train continuing to/from Blackpool North, Bolton, Wigan North Western, Barrow-in-Furness, Preston, Wigan Wallgate and Clitheroe) northbound and to Buxton southbound.^[2]

References

↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 247. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. R508.
↑ Table 86 National Rail timetable, May 2016

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Train times and station information for Whaley Bridge railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail	Following station
Chapel-en-le-Frith		Northern Buxton Line	Furness Vale
	Disused railways
Terminus		London and North Western Railway Cromford and High Peak Railway	Shallcross

Railways in Derbyshire

Railway lines	█ Buxton Line █ Crewe to 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 Langley Mill Langwith-Whaley Thorns Long Eaton Matlock Bath Matlock New Mills Central Peartree New Mills Newtown Shirebrook Spondon Tutbury and Hatton Whaley Bridge Whatstandwell Whitwell Willington

Heritage Railways and their Stations	Bakewell (Proposed) Butterley Darley Dale Hammersmith Idridgehay Ironville (Proposed) Pye Bridge (Proposed) Matlock Riverside Matlock Ravenstor Riddings (Proposed) Rowsley South Rowsley (Proposed) Shottle Wirksworth

Current operators	█ CrossCountry █ East Midlands Trains █ TransPennine Express █ Northern

UK railway stations: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Borough of High Peak

Major settlements

Villages

Waterways

Canals	Peak Forest Canal

Rivers	Alport Ashop Dane Derwent Dove Etherow Goyt Kinder Peakshole Water Noe Sett Westend Wye

Transport

Rail	Buxton railway station Chapel-en-le-Frith railway station Glossop railway station Hadfield railway station New Mills Central railway station Whaley Bridge railway station

Road	A6 A57 (Snake Pass) A624

Culture, leisure
and tourism

Education: Schools; University of Buxton
Governance: High Peak (constituency)
Historic: Mass trespass of Kinder Scout; Well dressing; Woodhead Tunnel
Sport: Buxton F.C.; Chapel Town F.C.; Glossop North End A.F.C.; New Mills A.F.C.

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