Great Longstone for Ashford railway station

Great Longstone for Ashford railway station was a station which served Great and Little Longstone in the Peak District of Derbyshire. It was opened in 1863 by the Midland Railway on its extension of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway from Rowsley.

Great Longstone for Ashford
The remains of Great Longstone for Ashford, showing the Monsal Trail and former platforms and station building
LocationDerbyshire Dales
England
Coordinates53.2367°N 1.7059°W / 53.2367; -1.7059
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyMidland Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-groupingLondon, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 June 1863Station opens as Longstone
1 October 1913renamed Great Longstone for Ashford
10 September 1962Closed to regular passenger services
6 March 1967Final closure
Monsal Trail
 
to Buxton
Midland Railway
to Peak Forest
 Topley Pike junction
 Chee Tor No. 1 tunnel
 Millers Dale
 Millers Dale viaducts
 Litton Tunnel (
516 yd
472 m
)
 Cressbrook Tunnel (
471 yd
431 m
)
 Monsal Dale
 Headstone Viaduct
 Headstone Tunnel (
533 yd
487 m
)
 Great Longstone
 Hassop
 Bakewell
 Coombs Road viaduct
(end of trail)
 Haddon Tunnel (
1058 yd
967 m
)
(closed)
 Rowsley
(proposed extension)
 Rowsley South
 Darley Dale
 Matlock Riverside

Sources[1][2]

Originally known as Longstone railway station, in 1913 it was renamed Great Longstone for Ashford (Ashford-in-the-Water). Once the London, Midland and Scottish Railway reached Manchester the line carried expresses to London St Pancras and heavy mineral traffic.

It closed in 1962,[3] except that, for a short time, one train a day in each direction continued to stop to allow a local resident, Mrs A Boardman, to travel to work, an episode immortalised by the British Movietone film It Only Stops For Her..[4] Trains continued to pass through the station until 1968 when the line was closed.

The station building, now Thornbridge Outdoors, was designed to match the nearby Thornbridge Hall and is Grade II listed,[5] and the trackbed through the station is part of the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) Monsal Trail, a walk and cycleway. Access to the Monsal Trail can be made at Great Longstone for Ashford railway station, via the ramp off Longstone Lane.

Route
Preceding station   Disused railways   Following station
Monsal Dale
Line and station closed		   Midland Railway
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Junction Railway		   Hassop
Line and station closed

References
  1. "The Monsal Trail". A Taste of the Peak District. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. Bickerdike, Graeme (June 2009). "The story of structures of the Monsal Trail: A Week in the Peak". Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  3. Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  4. British Movietone News (1962) It only Stops For Her
  5. Historic England, "Downside  (Grade II) (1109901)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 11 March 2017
  • Truman, P., Hunt, D., (1989) Midland Railway Portrait, Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing
  • Radford, B., (1988) Midland Though The Peak, Unicorn Books


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