Trent Station South Junction & Trent Junction to Manchester Central (via Derby and Cheadle Heath)

Restored archive page

This is a track and signalling schedule from the original British Railways 1960 archive, compiled by Brian Robertson. It records the running lines, junctions, signal boxes, and stations along this section as worked in the nationalisation era.

Section of Line	Opened	Closed	Notes
Rowsley to Buxton	01.06.1863
Millers Dale to New Mils South Junction [New Mills Central]	01.10.1866 (G)
Millers Dale to New Mils South Junction [New Mills Central]	24.01.1867 (G)*		* Reopened after landslip
Millers Dale to New Mils South Junction [New Mills Central]	01.02.1867 (P)
Cornbrook to Manchester Cen (Temp Sta)	09.07.1877
[Heaton Mersey Est. Junction] Heaton Mersey Stn. Junction to Throstle Nest Est. Junction	01.01.1880
Manchester Cen. (New Sta)	01.07.1880
Great Northern Goods Branch	01.07.1898 (G)
Cheadle Heath to Heaton Mersey Station Junction	01.10.1901
New Mills Sth. Junction to Cheadle Heath	04.05.1902 (G)
New Mills Sth. Junction to Cheadle Heath	01.07.1902
Peak Forest Junction/Rowsley Gds. to Matlock		01.07.1968

	Junctions and other features	Running Lines		Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
	Junctions and other features	Up	Down	Stations, Signal Boxes and Junctions	Distance from Signal Box above	Loops and Refuge Sidings	Notes
Maximum permissible speed 20 m.p.h.
1		–	↓	Trent South Junction	–
2		↑	–	Sheet Stores Junction	0m 690yds

1		–	↓↓	Trent Junction
2		↑	↓	Sheet Stores Junction	0m 811yds
3		↑	↓	Sawley Junction Station	0m 933yds
4		↑	↓	Sawley	1m 374yds
5		↑	↓	Draycott and Breaston Station	0m 1339yds	DRS 42 URS 50
6		↑	↓	Borrowash Station	2m 808yds	DRS 41
7		↑	↓↓	Spondon Station	1m 391yds
8		↑	↓	Spondon Junction	0m 764yds
9		↑	↓↓	Way and Works Sdgs.	1m 1264yds
10		↑↑	↓↓↓	London Road Junction	0m 355yds
11		↑↑↑↑	↓↓↓	"A" Box (No signals for No.6 platform or goods lines)	0m 268yds
12		↑↑↑↑	↓↓↓	Engine Sdgs. No.1 (No signals for main lines or goods line)	0m 212yds
13		↕↑↑↑↑	↓↓	Derby Midland Station North Junction (No signals for up goods line or Independent line)	0m 30yds
14		↕↑↑	↓↓	Derby Midland Junction	0m 216yds
15		↑	↓↓	Derby Midland North Junction	0m 519yds
				Nottingham Road Station
16		↑↑	↓↓	St. Mary’s Junction	0m 1307yds
17		↑↑	↓↓	Breadsall Crossing	1m 1045yds
18		↑↑	↓↓	Little Eaton Junction	0m 635yds	DRS 42
19		↑↑	↓↓	Peckwash Mill Sdgs.	1m 291yds
20		↑↑	↓	Duffield Junction	0m 1421yds
21		↑	↓	Belper Goods	1m 1753yds	DRS 55 UGL 50
				Belper Station
22		↑	↓↓	Broadholme	1m 970yds
23		↑↑	↓	Ambergate South Junction	1m 308yds
24		↑	↓	Ambergate Station Junction	0m 615yds
25		↑	↓	Ambergate West Junction	0m 332yds
				Whatstandwell Station
26		↑	↓	Whatstandwell Sidings	2m 230yds	URS 48
27		↑	↓	High Peak Junction	0m 1485yds	URS 35
28		↑	↓	Cromford Sidings	1m 516yds	DRS 65
				Cromford Station
29		↑	↓	Matlock Bath Station (Map)	1m 403yds
30		↑	↓	Matlock Station (Map)	1m 570yds
31		↑	↓↓	Darley Dale Station (Map)	1m 1758yds		c. 06.03.1967
32		↑↑	↓	Church Road Crossing	0m 786yds
33		↑	↓↓↓	Rowsley South Junction	0m 1662yds
34		↑↑	↓↓↓	Rowsley Up Sidings (Signals up goods line only)	0m 280yds
35		↑↑	↓↓↓	Rowsley Down Sidings No.2 (Signals 2nd down goods line only)	0m 440yds
36		↑↑	↓↓	Rowsley Down Sidings No.1 (Signals 1st and 2nd down goods lines only)	0m 20yds
37		↑↑	↓	Rowsley North Junction	0m 580yds	DRS 24
				Rowsley Station (Map)			c. 1st 01.08.1862 c. 2nd 06.03.1967
38		↑	↓	Haddon	2m 259yds	DRS 33
39		↑	↓	Bakewell Station (Map)	1m 854yds		c. 06.03.1967
40		↑	↓	Hassop (Map)	0m 1542yds	DRS 44	c. 17.08.1942
				Great Longstone Station (Map)			c. 10.09.1962
41		↑	↓	Monsall Dale (Map)	2m 1490yds	DRS 55	c. 10.08.1959
42		↑	↓↓	Lime Coy’s. Sdgs.	2m 578yds
43		↑	↓	Millers Dale Station (Map)	0m 734yds		c. 06.03.1967
44		↑	↓	Millers Dale Junction	1m 345yds
45		↑	↓	Peak Forest Junction	0m 898yds	DRS 40
46		↑	↓	Tunstead	1m 168yds
47		↑	↓↓	Great Rocks Junction	0m 1520yds	DRS 34 URS 43
48		↕↑	↓	Peak Forest South	0m 1221yds
				Peak Forest Station (Map)			c. 06.03.1967
49		↑	↓	Peak Forest North	0m 574yds
50		↑	↓	Dove Holes Tunnel	2m 795yds	URS 16 URS 13
51		↑	↓↓	Chapel-en-le-Frith Central Station (Map)	1m 93yds		c. 06.03.1967
52		↑↑	↓	Chinley South Jn	0m 908yds
53		↑	↓↓	Chinley North Jn	0m 808yds
54		↑↑	↓↓↓	Chinley Station South Junction	0m 1641yds
55		↑↑	↓↓	Chinley Station North Junction (Map)	0m 346yds
56		↑↑	↓↓	Buxworth Junction (Map)	1m 863yds		c. 15.09.1958
57		↑↑	↓↓	Gowhole Goods Junction (No signals for fast lines)	0m 917yds
58		↑↑	↓	New Mills South Junction	0m 1085yds
59		↑	↓	Disley	1m 1372yds	DGL 55 URS 43
60		↑	↓	Hazel Grove (Map)	3m 399yds	DRS 43 URS 52	c. 01.01.1917
61		↑	↓	Bramhall Moor Lane	1m 700yds	URS 48*	* Used from down side also
62		↑	↓↓	Cheadle Heath South Jn	2m 953yds
				Cheadle Heath Station (Map)			c. 02.01.1967
63		↑↑	↓	Cheadle Heath North Junction	0m 508yds
64		↑	↓	Heaton Mersey Station Junction (Map)	0m 1454yds		c. 03.07.1961
65		↑	↓	Didsbury Goods Yard	1m 40yds	URS 39
				Didsbury Station (Map)			c. 02.01.1967
66		↑	↓	Withington and West Didsbury Station (Map)	0m 1678yds		c. 03.07.1961
67		↑	↓	Chorlton-cum-Hardy Junction	1m 691yds
68		↑	↓	Chorlton-cum-Hardy Station (Map)	0m 902yds		c. 02.01.1967
69		↑	↓	Throstle Nest South Junction	1m 495yds
70		↑	↓↓	Throstle Nest East Junction	0m 470yds
71		↑↑	↓	Cornbrook West Junction	0m 493yds
72	—	↑↑↑	–	Manchester Central Station (Map)	1m 70yds		c. 1st 01.07.1880 2nd 05.05.1969

Source: the original britishrailways1960.co.uk archive (Brian Robertson, 2003 to 2013), restored from the site’s own records. Corrections welcome via the contribute page.

Explore the archive: All lines · Regions · Constituents · Locomotives · Beeching and closures · Home