Middlewood

A regular sight for me after leaving the train at Middlewood Station is the departure of class 150 units towards Buxton. This somewhat remote station has no road access and requires a walk through the wood or along the trackbed of the former Macclesfield, Bollington & Marple Railway which now forms the Middlewood Way. Sadly the daytime service here is only two hourly with several more trains not stopping. This makes off-peak travel particularly difficult as the first train to Manchester with cheaper fares is at 11.18! Well done Northern for altering it from 9.30.

This location was once bustling with industry, There were colliery sidings to the left of this view along with the colliery locomotive shed. The colliery line was served by the two railway companies whose lines crossed here and lasted until 1892.