Dinting Railway Centre
Dinting 
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Dinting railway station. The Glossop bound platform.
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| Location | |
| Place | Dinting |
| Local authority | High Peak |
| Grid reference | SK020947 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | DTG |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | E |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.120 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.134 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.148 million |
| 2014/15 |
 0.139 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.148 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Transport for Greater Manchester |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Dinting from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Dinting railway station serves the village of Dinting near Glossop in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Manchester-Glossop Line 12¼ miles (20 km) east of Manchester Piccadilly. Prior to the Woodhead Line closure in 1981 Dinting was a station on a major cross Pennine route.
An earlier station had been opened as "Glossop" by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1842, but was renamed when the Glossop branch opened in 1845. In 1847 a temporary "Glossop Junction" station was built, on the site of which the present station was built in 1848. A direct west to south curve was added in 1884 (when the station was rebuilt), allowing through running from Glossop to Manchester. Although named Dinting, it mainly serves the people of Gamesley.
For most of the day all trains use platform 2. However, in the rush hour platform 1 is the departure platform for services to Glossop via Hadfield, with platform 2 being used for trains to Manchester Piccadilly, or this can reverse with trains to Hadfield via Glossop departing from platform 2 and Manchester Piccadilly services using platform 1. Two further platforms survive but both are out of use and fenced off - the old eastbound mainline platform towards Hadfield and that formerly used by Manchester-bound trains on the Glossop branch. Buildings still stand on each one, though neither is now in rail use. There are also buildings on platform 1 and a signal box that controls the triangular junction and single lines to both termini.
Immediately adjacent to the station is the Dinting viaduct where three people were killed in an accident in September 1855. Another accident south of the station (on the Glossop branch) in 1906 resulted in 20 passengers and 3 members of train crew being injured when two trains were involved in a rear end collision.
Dinting is considered to be part of the Transport for Greater Manchester rail network, being only a short distance from the administrative boundary; the same is true for Glossop and Hadfield stations. This means that ticketing such as rail rangers, season tickets and integrated multi-mode ticketing is the same as Greater Manchester rather than Derbyshire. Derbyshire County Council's Derbyshire Wayfarer ticket is not valid on trains on the Glossop Line; however it can be used on buses in the area.
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