Hadfield railway station
Hadfield 
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| Location | |
| Place | Hadfield |
| Local authority | High Peak |
| Coordinates | 53°27′40″N 1°57′54″W / 53.461°N 1.965°WCoordinates: 53°27′40″N 1°57′54″W / 53.461°N 1.965°W |
| Grid reference | SK023959 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | HDF |
| Managed by | Northern |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| 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 |
 0.341 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.393 million |
| 2013/14 |
 0.392 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.371 million |
| 2015/16 |
0.346 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Transport for Greater Manchester |
| History | |
| Original company | Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Great Central Railway |
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
| 7 August 1844 | Station opened |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hadfield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Hadfield railway station serves the town of Hadfield in Derbyshire, England. The station is one of the twin termini at the Derbyshire end of the Manchester-Glossop Line, the other being Glossop. It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1844.
The line formerly continued east of Hadfield to Penistone, Wath and Sheffield via the Woodhead Tunnel. Passenger trains on the Woodhead Line were withdrawn east of Hadfield on 5 January 1970, followed by complete closure in 1981. The tracks were lifted several years later, but the trackbed is still visible and has been partly adapted as a footpath. Since the end of through passenger services to Penistone and Sheffield, only the former eastbound platform has been used and the section westwards to the junction at Dinting is now single track.
Hadfield was (and still is) the eastern terminus for local trains to/from Manchester Piccadilly. From 1954 until 1984 the station was served by Class 506 Electric Multiple Units (EMUs), latterly the only British Rail EMUs capable of operating on the Woodhead Line's non-standard 1500 V dc electric system. In December 1984 the line was converted to the standard 25,000 V ac system and the Class 506s were withdrawn. Trains at Hadfield are now always formed of Class 323 EMUs.
The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway was authorised in May 1837, and the line was opened in stages. The section between Dinting (known as Glossop until 9 June 1845) and Woodhead was formally opened on 7 August 1844, with the public service beginning the next day. Initially, there were five trains per day (weekdays and Sundays) in each direction over this stretch, running between Manchester and Woodhead, except for one eastbound train which on weekdays commenced its journey at Newton. The trains called at all stations, of which Hadfield was the only intermediate station also opened on 7 August 1844; some timetables have shown it as Hadfield for Hollingsworth.
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