Glossop railway station

Glossop
The exterior of Glossop railway station in 2006, with the GMPTE logo visible on the station sign
Location
Place	Glossop
Local authority	High Peak
Coordinates	53°26′38″N 1°56′56″W / 53.444°N 1.949°W / 53.444; -1.949Coordinates: 53°26′38″N 1°56′56″W / 53.444°N 1.949°W / 53.444; -1.949
Grid reference	SK034942
Operations
Station code	GLO
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	1
DfT category	D
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11	0.740 million
2011/12	0.765 million
2012/13	0.898 million
2013/14	0.956 million
2014/15	0.896 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Transport for Greater Manchester[1]
History
Original company	Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
9 June 1845 (1845-06-09)	Opened as Glossop for goods only
30 June 1845	Opened for all traffic
10 July 1922	Renamed Glossop Central
6 May 1974	Renamed Glossop
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Glossop from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Glossop railway station serves the Pennine market town of Glossop in Derbyshire, England. Glossop is the third busiest railway station in the county of Derbyshire after Derby and Chesterfield. It is estimated 956,000 people used the station in 2013/14.

The station is 15 miles (24 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly station, and is the terminus of the Glossop Line. Together with nearby Derbyshire stations at Hadfield and Dinting, Glossop is considered to be part of the Greater Manchester rail network as it lies only a short distance over the county boundary and the line goes no further into Derbyshire. For that reason the station signs at Glossop feature the Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) logo, and the station features on the TfGM rail network map.^[2] However, Greater Manchester concessionary fares do not apply to passengers travelling from Glossop, Dinting or Hadfield.^[3]

History

Glossop station in 1967

Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk built the spur line from Dinting viaduct to Howard Town over his own land at his own expense. He then sold it to the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway^[4] for £15,244 10s 10d (equivalent to £1,360,000 in 2015).^[5] The station was opened on 9 June 1845 to goods traffic; the formal opening was on 30 June 1845 – it was attended by some of the SA&MR Directors, and passenger traffic began immediately afterward.^[6] There was a previous station called Glossop on the main line but that was renamed "Dinting" with the opening of the Glossop station on the branch.^[7] The new station was originally named Glossop, and was renamed Glossop Central on 10 July 1922, reverting to Glossop on 6 May 1974.^[8][9]

Originally built with multiple platforms, the station was reduced to one platform in the 1980s. Double-ended electric multiple units arriving from Manchester Piccadilly reverse to proceed to Hadfield, and vice versa. The other platforms and redundant station buildings were incorporated into an extension for the next door Co-op supermarket and car park, now owned by The Co-operative Group.

The station is now a Grade II Listed building and a blue plaque was unveiled in 2006.

Services

A Northern Rail 323 at Glossop's platform

There is generally a half-hourly daytime service to Manchester Piccadilly and Hadfield. This is increased to every 20 minutes in the morning and evening rush-hour periods.^[10]

Trains operate hourly in the evenings and half-hourly on Sundays. When there is engineering work on Sundays, the replacement bus service only operates hourly.

A number of services to/from Manchester Piccadilly start or terminate at Glossop during the rush hour, early morning and late evening.

All passenger services are operated by Northern, who use Class 323 EMUs on the route from Manchester Piccadilly to Glossop and Hadfield.

Facilities

Glossop station is the busiest on the line from Manchester Piccadilly (excluding Piccadilly itself). The ticket office is open seven days a week. Outside the station building, on Norfolk Street, is a small car park. The town's main bus stop and taxi rank are located 30 yards from the station entrance, on Henry Street. The former station hotel is now the George Hotel, located on the other side of Norfolk Street from the station. Also very close by are the Star and Norfolk Arms public houses.

On 2 September 2011 a £75,000 refurbishment of the station was officially opened with a new ticket office and waiting room. The waiting room features past photographs of the railway station and work by local Derbyshire artists.

Friends of Glossop Station

The Friends of Glossop Station (FOGS) was formed in 2002 as a splinter group of Glossop Environmental Trust (GET).^[11] They are an active station adoption group who have carried out a number of projects at the station, including creating a station garden, painting cast iron railings, holding 'Community Rail Days' ^[12] and beautifying the station with hanging baskets, floral displays and redecorating.^[11]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Glossop railway station.

• Train times and station information for Glossop railway station from National Rail
• Northern
• TfGM
• Friends of Glossop Station
• Glossop Community

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Dinting		Northern Manchester-Glossop		Terminus
Dinting		Northern Manchester-Hadfield via Glossop		Hadfield
Hadfield		Northern Manchester-Glossop via Hadfield		Terminus

Railways around Glossop and Hadfield
Legend To Tameside Lines Etherow viaduct Dinting viaduct Dinting Glossop Hadfield Crowden Woodhead Woodhead Tunnel To Penistone