Higher Buxton railway station was opened in 1894 to the south east of

Buxton Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It is England's highest market town, sited at some above sea level.

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

, on the

LNWR The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. In the late 19th century, the L&NWR was the largest joint stock company in the United Kingdom. In 1923, it became a constituent of the Lond ...

line to Ashbourne and the south. It utilised part of the

Cromford and High Peak Railway The Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR) was a standard-gauge line between the Cromford Canal wharf at High Peak Junction and the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge. The railway, which was completed in 1831, was built to carry minerals and goo ...

(which ran from

Whaley Bridge Whaley Bridge () is a town and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. It is situated on the River Goyt, south-east of Manchester, north of Buxton, north-east of Macclesfield and west of Sheffield. It had a population ...

Cromford Cromford is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Derwent between Wirksworth and Matlock. It is north of Derby, south of Matlock and south of Matlock Bath. It is first mentioned in the 11th-century Do ...

), joining it at Hindlow and proceeding to a branch to Ashbourne at

Parsley Hay Parsley Hay railway station served Parsley Hay, a hamlet within Hartington Middle Quarter civil parish, about south east of Buxton, Derbyshire, on the LNWR line to Ashbourne. The nearest large settlement is the village of Hartington. Histor ...

On leaving its bay at

Buxton Buxton is a spa town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It is England's highest market town, sited at some above sea level.

LNWR station, the line turned through a tight 180-degree curve southwards across a thirteen-arch

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viaduct 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

High Peak Junction High Peak Junction, near Cromford, Derbyshire, England, is the name now used to describe the site where the former Cromford and High Peak Railway (C&HPR), whose workshops were located here, meets the Cromford Canal. It lies within Derwent Valley ...

near

. Like all the stations on the line the platforms and buildings were of timber construction. On leaving the station, the line continued its climb across the thirteen arch Duke's Drive Viaduct on its way to thence to Beswick's Sidings, where the gradient eased to 1 in 330 as far as . The station was never very busy, being close to the main station, and it closed in 1951. Passenger services on the line finished in 1954 but the now-single line remains open for mineral trains serving the lime works at Dowlow.Jacobs, G., (Ed.) (2005) ''Railway Track Diagrams Book 4: Midlands and North West,'' Bradford-on-Avon: Trackmaps

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* Bentley, J.M., Fox, G.K., (1997) ''Railways of the High Peak: Buxton to Ashbourne (Scenes From The Past series 32),'' Romiley: Foxline Publishing {{coord, 53.2557, -1.9083, type:railwaystation_region:GB, display=title Disused railway stations in Derbyshire Buildings and structures in Buxton Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1894 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1951 Former London and North Western Railway stations

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