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Stockport, Disley And Whaley Bridge Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![The terminus at Buxton.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7067.jpg "Buxton")
![Shed scene at Buxton, photographed in May 1960. The steam shed had its code changed from 9D to 9L in 1963 and retained the latter until official closure in 1968.<br><br>[K A Gray 20/05/1960]](/images/32000/32237.jpg "Buxton Shed")
![Stanier 2P 0-4-4T no 41908 stands on Buxton shed in May 1960 nearly 6 months after withdrawal. The locomotive was eventually cut up at Gorton works in the spring of 1961. <br><br>[K A Gray 20/05/1960]](/images/33000/33803.jpg "Buxton Shed")
![Webb G2A 0-8-0 48932 stands in a busy looking shed yard at Buxton on 20 May 1960. <br><br>[K A Gray 20/05/1960]](/images/51000/51993.jpg "Buxton Shed")
![43185 stands on a stored locomotive line alongside the turntable at Buxton shed in April 1962 some 8 months after official withdrawal. The ex-Midland 3F 0-6-0 was eventually cut up at Crewe Works the following October.<br><br>[K A Gray 16/04/1962]](/images/37000/37982.jpg "Buxton Shed")
![Stanier 2P 0-4-4T no 41905 in a siding alongside Buxton shed in April 1962. The locomotive is recorded as having been officially withdrawn from here more than 2 years earlier. It was cut up at Crewe works a month after this photograph was taken.<br><br>[K A Gray 16/04/1962]](/images/41000/41473.jpg "Buxton Shed")
![Fowler 2-6-4T 42370 in a siding alongside Buxton shed on 16 April 1962. The locomotive was officially withdrawn from here two months later.<br><br>[K A Gray 16/04/1962]](/images/53000/53518.jpg "Buxton Shed")
![The DMU forming the LCGB (North West Branch) <I>Manchester Terminals Farewell Railtour</I> stands at Buxton terminus on 23 May 1969. [See image 31150] <br><br>[K A Gray 23/05/1969]](/images/31000/31151.jpg "Buxton")
![View towards the buffer stops at Buxton in 1978 with a DMU ready to leave for Manchester.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore //1978]](/images/19000/19917.jpg "Buxton")
![The Hazel Grove spur a month after opening in June 1986.<br><br>[Ian Dinmore /06/1986]](/images/34000/34255.jpg "Hazel Grove")
![Class 37 and 31 locomotives stabled outside Buxton (LNWR) station on 17 February 1992.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 17/02/1992]](/images/36000/36955.jpg "Buxton")
![Chapel-en-le-Frith station looking towards Buxton on 13 May 2009. The station building on the Buxton platform is now the Brief Encounter restaurant. There is no footbridge between the platforms and access between them is by way of the foot crossing behind the photographer.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/05/2009]](/images/23000/23661.jpg "Chapel-en-le-Frith")
![Looking towards Hazel Grove, 150149 arrives at Whaley Bridge with a service to Buxton<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/05/2009]](/images/23000/23663.jpg "Whaley Bridge")
![The plaque on the wall of the former station building at Chapel-en-le-Frith commemorating John Axon GC and John Creamer. [Railscot note: On 9 February 1957, driver Axon's freight train was returning from Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District to his home depot at Edgeley, Stockport, when the steam brake pipe fractured. Despite exposure to scalding steam, he urged his fireman to jump to safety and hung on the outside of the cab as the train picked up speed, reaching 80mph down a long incline. His shouted warning to the signalman at Doveholes enabled a DMU at Chapel-en-le-Frith to be moved to safety but his own life was lost as his engine crashed into the rear of a freight train there. John Creamer, the guard on the second train, also died in the crash. John Axon was posthumously awarded the George Cross.]<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/05/2009]](/images/23000/23666.jpg "Chapel-en-le-Frith")
![150149 slows as it passes Chapel-en-le-Frith SB and approaches the station on a Buxton to Manchester Piccadilly service on 13 May 2009. This is the former L&NW route to Buxton, the lower level Midland route crosses from left to right via a tunnel below the rear of the DMU.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/05/2009]](/images/24000/24104.jpg "Chapel-en-le-Frith")
![A Northern Rail service to Buxton departs from Whaley Bridge on the climb up to Chapel-en-le-Frith on 13 May 2009. 150149 is the unit doing the work.<br><br>[John McIntyre 13/05/2009]](/images/24000/24653.jpg "Whaley Bridge")
![Looking north through the site of Chapel-en-le-Frith (Midland) station on 21 March 2010. The platforms have gone but the main station building on the up side remains and is now in use as Chapel DIY. On the down side a coal yard now goes right up to the trackside. The post with a camera to the left of the down line is presumably for the signaller at Chinley Junction to confirm that there is a tail-light on the rear vehicle for any train heading east and not passing the signalbox.<br><br>[John McIntyre 21/03/2010]](/images/28000/28407.jpg "Chapel-en-le-Frith")
![The old Midland Railway station building on the up side at Chapel-en-le-Frith has received a few modifications over the years since closure and is now used by Chapel DIY. At least it survives, which is more than can be said for the buildings on the down side. Trains still pass the station but they are now the heavy freights bringing stone from the quarries at Peak Forest. <br><br>[John McIntyre 21/03/2010]](/images/28000/28416.jpg "Chapel-en-le-Frith")
![The view north from the Buxton platform at Dove Holes station on 9 <br>
May 2010. Looking under the three overbridges doesn't really give the impression of just how steep the descent is towards Chapel-en-le-Frith.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 09/05/2010]](/images/32000/32024.jpg "Dove Holes")
![The much cut-back and modified station at Buxton on 19 October 2010, taken from approximately the same position as the Kenneth Gray 1969 photograph [see image 31151] but the platform is now shorter and a barrier prevented a true then and now shot. A train for Manchester Piccadilly stands at platform 2. [The driver was very taken with the rough print I had taken of the 1969 image and keen to see if he could recognise anyone - he didn't!]<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/10/2010]](/images/31000/31150.jpg "Buxton")
![The remaining shell of Buxton station seen on 19 October 2010, looking across Station Road.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/10/2010]](/images/31000/31175.jpg "Buxton")
![Platform view east from Hazel Grove station on 19 October 2010. The route diverging to the left beyond the road bridge is for New Mills South Junction with the line to Buxton running straight ahead.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/10/2010]](/images/31000/31702.jpg "Hazel Grove")
![A Northern 156 DMU on a Hazel Grove - Preston service prepares to start its journey on 19 Oct 2010.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/10/2010]](/images/31000/31712.jpg "Hazel Grove")
![A Buxton to Manchester service has just called at Furness Vale station behind the photographer on 19 October 2010. This service comprised of 3 sets, a mixture of Class 156 and 150s, in order to get one of them back to Manchester for maintenance.<br><br>[John McIntyre 19/10/2010]](/images/55000/55593.jpg "Furness Vale")
![A Buxton to Barrow service arrives at New Mills Newtown on 19 October 2010. <br><br>[John McIntyre 19/10/2010]](/images/55000/55597.jpg "New Mills Newtown")
![The Railway Touring Company <I>Buxton Spa Express</I> hauled by Black 5 44871 + Jubilee 5690 <I>Leander</I> working hard through Chapel-en-le-Frith station on the climb towards Dove Holes on 26 February with the outward leg of the tour. <br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 26/02/2011]](/images/32000/32952.jpg "Chapel-en-le-Frith")
![Class 150 DMUs standing at Buxton Station on 4 June 2011.<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/06/2011]](/images/34000/34375.jpg "Buxton")
![66126 with a <I>'Pathfinder'</I> tour on the stops at Buxton Station on 4 June 2011.<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/06/2011]](/images/34000/34382.jpg "Buxton")
![A view of outer station area at Buxton on 4 June 2011. The former BR Buxton diesel depot stands on the left. In the distance is Buxton No 1 Junction signal Box, controlling the station and the line from Stockport. The box also controls two freight lines that come in just out of shot beyond the building on the right and pass by on either side. One of these is the line from Hindlow and the other from Great Rocks/Tunstead.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd 04/06/2011]](/images/34000/34420.jpg "Buxton")
![Working hard on the long climb into the Peak District, Black 5 45407 leads 44871 on <i>The Buxton Spa Express</i> railtour from Lancaster to Buxton on 5 November 2011, seen here passing Chapel-en-le-Frith.<br><br>[John McIntyre 05/11/2011]](/images/36000/36330.jpg "Chapel-en-le-Frith")
![In the early stages of the journey from Buxton to Blackpool, Northern 150145 drifts downhill from Dove Holes between Barmoor Clough and Eaves tunnels on 1 April 2013. <br><br>[John McIntyre 01/04/2013]](/images/42000/42582.jpg "Dove Holes")
![Looking north east from the end of platform 2 at Buxton station on a relatively quiet 5 January 2015. In the distance a class 66 can just be seen taking a northbound freight past Buxton signal box.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 05/01/2014]](/images/49000/49964.jpg "Buxton")
![156426 is ready to leave Buxton with the 09:22 to Manchester Piccadilly and is allowed an extra 5 minutes for the journey in the leaf fall season. The restored fanlight window which was the gable end of the original station is visible above the train [see image 31175]. Both platforms are in daily use whilst the centre road is used for the overnight stabling of Class 150 and 156 units in regular use on the line.<br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 31/10/2014]](/images/49000/49312.jpg "Buxton")
![The famous fan window at Buxton on 5 January 2015, with plaque details below. [See image 31150] <br><br>[Bruce McCartney 05/01/2015]](/images/49000/49955.jpg "Buxton")
![Looking back along platform 2 at Buxton towards the buffer stops on 5 January 2015. The 1229 to Manchester Piccadilly is awaiting its departure time.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 05/01/2015]](/images/49000/49973.jpg "Buxton")
![45690 <I>Leander</I> brings the empty stock into Buxton for the return journey of the 'Buxton Spa Express' railtour on 25 February 2017. At the other end of the train was Standard 4 2-6-0 no.76084 which drew the train out of the station before running round to double head the train as far as Blackburn (via Sheffield and Wakefield).<br><br>[John McIntyre 25/02/2017]](/images/58000/58252.jpg "Buxton")
![A view in the Up Relief Siding of where the Buxton steam shed once stood. An area now covered with silver birch!<br><br>[John McIntyre 26/02/2017]](/images/58000/58580.jpg "Buxton Shed (LNWR)")
![In the Up Relief Siding where the Buxton steam shed had been, now covered with silver birch. (On a ISO 1600 day!)<br><br>[John McIntyre 26/02/2017]](/images/58000/58606.jpg "Buxton Shed (LNWR)")
![The foundations of the demolished shed at Buxton seen from the station in February 2017.<br><br>[John McIntyre 27/02/2017]](/images/58000/58414.jpg "Buxton Shed")
![A Manchester Piccadilly to Buxton service runs non-stop through Middlewood station on 03 September 2017. The photo was taken from the bridge that used to carry the Macclesfield to Marple line and is now the Middlewood Way bridleway.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/09/2017]](/images/60000/60809.jpg "Middlewood")
![The imposing fan window at Buxton station on 17th March 2018. The line of the road stands on the site of the forecourt between the LNW and Midland stations. A matching window adorned the Midland side but was unfortunately demolished upon the station’s closure. Eagle-eyed observers will have spotted Stanier Class 5 45407 (running as 45157) on the viaduct in the middle distance. Top and tail with 45690 it had just returned from a very rare foray up the Hindlow Branch with RTC’s High Peak Explorer. <br><br>[Malcolm Chattwood 17/03/2018]](/images/63000/63399.jpg "Buxton")
