Edale railway station

Edale
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Location
Place	Edale
Local authority	High Peak
Grid reference	SK123853
Operations
Station code	EDL
Managed by	Northern Rail
Number of platforms	2
DfT category	F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	44,109
2005/06	46,396
2006/07	50,228
2007/08	58,531
2008/09	58,430
2009/10	63,754
2010/11	68,042
2011/12	72,756
History
Key dates	Opened 1894 (1894)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Edale from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Edale railway station serves the rural village of Edale in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England. It was opened in 1894 on the Midland Railway's Dore and Chinley line (now the Hope Valley Line), becoming an unstaffed halt in 1969.

Lying below Kinder Scout, the station is the closest station for the start of the Pennine Way.

The station has two platforms with no level crossing or footbridge. To change platforms, there is an underpass located next to the road in the village. The station is managed and served primarily by Northern Rail using rolling stock such as the Class 142 Pacer and Class 150 Sprinter, with the occasional Class 156 Super Sprinter. East Midlands Trains services are usually run with Class 158 Express Sprinter units.

The station is about 5 minutes walk from the centre of the village, where the Pennine Way begins, with the Nags Head public house being 'the official start of the Pennine Way'.

Service

The typical off-peak is one train every two hours to Sheffield and to Manchester Piccadilly, provided solely by Northern Rail. This is increased on Saturdays to one train per hour in each direction and on Sundays it returns to being two-hourly.

East Midlands Trains provide the first service of the day to Liverpool Lime Street via Warrington Central. The final return working of the day starts from Liverpool Lime Street and continues on to Nottingham via Sheffield. All other services are provided by Northern Rail. A normal weekday service operates on most bank holidays.

External links

• Train times and station information for Edale railway station from National Rail

Preceding station		National Rail		Following station
Hope		Northern Rail Hope Valley Line		Chinley
		East Midlands Trains Liverpool-Norwich Limited service
	Disused railways
Hope Line and station open		Midland Railway		Chapel-en-le-Frith Central Line and station closed