Trains to Dove Holes - Station Details and further Information on Dove Holes Train Services
Dove Holes train station serves the village of Dove Holes, Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Manchester Piccadilly to Buxton line 23 miles south east of Piccadlly. It is managed and served by Northern Rail who took over the station from First North Western. From Dove Holes there is a train every two-hours Monday-Saturday towards Manchester Piccadilly northbound and Buxton southbound. On Sundays the service frequency in both directions from the station is hourly.
It was opened in 1863 by the LNWR at the summit of its line between Whaley Bridge and Buxton. Originally the Midland Railway had hoped that the LNWR would join it in extending the line that they jointly leased between Ambergate and Rowsley. The LNWR declined, then built this one from Buxton to meet its line to Manchester. Later the Midland built a line from Millers Dale through Chapel to Chinley passing 183 feet beneath it in Dove Holes Tunnel.
In 1957, the gradient into Chapel-en-le-Frith was the scene of a serious accident, in which the driver of a runaway freight train, John Axon remained at his post and died, being awarded a posthumous George Cross. |
