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Fairfield Halt railway station

Coordinates: 53°16′1″N 1°54′23″W / 53.26694°N 1.90639°W / 53.26694; -1.90639
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Fairfield Halt
General information
LocationBuxton, High Peak, Derbyshire
England
Coordinates53°16′1″N 1°54′23″W / 53.26694°N 1.90639°W / 53.26694; -1.90639
Grid referenceSK063744
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyLNWR
Post-groupingLMS
Key dates
16 December 1907 (1907-12-16)Opened
11 September 1939 (1939-09-11)Closed
Buxton line
Manchester Piccadilly Manchester Metrolink
Transpennine line
and Glossop line
Levenshulme
Heaton Chapel
Stockport
Davenport
Woodsmoor
Hazel Grove
Macclesfield, Bollington
and Marple Railway
Middlewood
Middlewood Tunnel
Disley
Disley Tunnel
New Mills Newtown
Furness Vale
Whaley Bridge
Cromford and
High Peak Railway
Chapel-en-le-Frith
Eaves Tunnel
Barmoor Clough Tunnel
Dove Holes
Fairfield Halt
Millers Dale
Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock & Midland Jn Rly
Buxton
LNWRMR
to Matlock
 
Buxton goods depot
Higher Buxton

Fairfield Halt was a railway station at Fairfield near Buxton, Derbyshire that was open between 1907 and 1939. The station was opened by the London & North Western Railway (LNWR) on 16 December 1907 to serve the nearby Buxton Golf Club.[1] Opening the station had been requested by the golf club committee and the local authority to attract more visitors who lived close to the LNWR's line between Manchester and Buxton.[2]

The station was unusual in that it only had one platform and was only served by trains heading to Buxton.[1] In addition passengers were only allowed to alight from trains.[3]

Known at various times as simply Fairfield, Fairfield Halt and Fairfield Halt for Golf Links, the station closed at the outbreak of the Second World War.[1][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. p. 188. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Golf and Golfers". Manchester Courier. No. 15, 953. 24 December 1907. p. 9 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ a b Bentley, J.M. (1987). Scenes from the Past:2 The railways around Buxton. Foxline. p. 15. ISBN 978-18701-1901-6.