Date: 23/10/2015

Hundreds more people have begun backing a campaign for a feasibility study to investigate the re-opening of the Buxton to Matlock railway line. Campaigner James Wyatt started the online petition and wrote a letter to the Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin during the summer. [From Richard Buckby]

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Petition for new Buxton to Matlock rail line gathers steam

Buxton Mercury

Hundreds more people have begun backing a campaign for a feasibility study to investigate the re-opening of the Buxton to Matlock railway line.

Related images

The derelict Millers Dale station on the late-lamented former Midland main line through the Peak District photographed from the south-east in the summer of 1973.
Location: Millers Dale
Company: Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway
//1973 Bill Jamieson

A 'Valley Lines' DMU stands at Matlock in November 1990.
Location: Matlock
Company: Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway
/11/1990 Ian Dinmore

The DMU forming the LCGB (North West Branch) Manchester Terminals Farewell Railtour stands at Buxton terminus on 23 May 1969. [See image 31150]
Location: Buxton
Company: Buxton Extension (Stockport, Disley and Whaley Bridge Railway)
23/05/1969 K A Gray