Hyde North railway station

Hyde North
Hyde North railway station in 2006
Location
Place	Hyde
Local authority	Tameside
Coordinates	53°27′50″N 2°05′10″W / 53.464°N 2.086°W / 53.464; -2.086Coordinates: 53°27′50″N 2°05′10″W / 53.464°N 2.086°W / 53.464; -2.086
Grid reference	SJ944964
Operations
Station code	HYT
Managed by	Northern
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13	43,938
2013/14	44,346
2014/15	42,148
2015/16	43,992
2016/17	48,644
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Greater Manchester
History
Original company	Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Pre-grouping	Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee
Post-grouping	Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee
February 1863	Opened as Hyde Junction
17 September 1951	Renamed Hyde North
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hyde North from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

Hyde North is a railway station north of Hyde, Greater Manchester, England, operated by Northern.

Originally opened as Hyde Junction in February 1863, it was at the junction between the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway extension to New Mills, (operated jointly with the Midland Railway as the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee), and the MS&L main line through Penistone to Sheffield). For a while it saw the Midlands's expresses from London. In 1875 however, a new more direct route was built through Bredbury. On 17 September 1951, the station was renamed Hyde North.

The junction just outside the station was the scene of a crash on 22 August 1990 when, at around 09:50, two trains collided across the single lead junction where the two routes diverged: the 09:33 from Rose Hill to Manchester Piccadilly, and the 09:36 from Manchester Piccadilly to Sheffield. Of the 42 passengers, there were 28 minor injuries. The official report found that the driver of the Rose Hill train had inadvertently passed a signal set at danger and passed onto the short section of single track between the platform end and the junction points where the collision took place. The report also concluded that the driver had not received adequate training.

Hyde North only has platforms on the non-electrified tracks towards New Mills Central. The electrified tracks carry EMU trains from Manchester Piccadilly to Glossop and Hadfield behind the station. Despite the station's former name Hyde Junction suggesting that passengers had a choice of routes, there never were platforms on the Glossop/Hadfield line here; trains call instead at nearby Flowery Field.