Alsop en le Dale railway station

Alsop en le Dale
Coldeaton Cutting near Alsop station on the Tissington Trail
Location
Place	Buxton
Area	Derbyshire Dales
Grid reference	SK15485498
Operations
Original company	London and North Western Railway
Pre-grouping	London and North Western Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Platforms	2
History
4 August 1899	Station opened
1 November 1954	Station closed to regular traffic
7 October 1963	Station closed to all traffic
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Alsop en le Dale railway station was opened in 1899 near Alsop en le Dale and Alstonefield, villages in Derbyshire southeast of Buxton.

It was on the Ashbourne Line built by the LNWR as a branch from the Cromford and High Peak Railway (which ran from Whaley Bridge to Cromford) at Parsley Hay. At some time it was known as "Alsop en le Dale for Alstonefield."

Opened by the London and North Western Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was then closed to regular traffic by the British Transport Commission and finally for excursions by the British Railways Board.

From Hurdlow the line had been fairly easily graded, but at Alsop Moor, roughly halfway from Hartington it began to fall sharply at 1 in 60 and would continue to do so into Ashbourne. From Alsop to the next station at Tissington the fall was at 1 in 71.

The descent to Alsop was through Cold Eaton Cutting, 60 feet deep and three quarters of a mile long, requiring the removal of 300,000 tons of limestone