Sunday service.

A two-car class 150 sets out from Buxton on an overcast blustery Sunday morning*, forming the 10:29 service to Manchester;

The up line has recently been relaid with steel sleepers (which sat patiently waiting next to the line for about two years before finally being used).

Twenty minutes later the 9:50 from Manchester Piccadilly arrives in Buxton in good time, this time it comprises of a four-car 156 unit;

The 9:50 doesn't stop at Dove Holes, perhaps the good folk in Dove are too busy at church on a Sunday morning to visit Buxton, or maybe timetable planners like to leave stops out to try and catch out drivers?

Note the semaphore signals, around here coloured lights are for Christmas trees...

All these photos were taken from bridge 88, which carries a Public Footpath from Brown Edge Road past the site of the old steam shed and up towards the St. Peters Road and the A6. There was a platform here, which would have been located on the right in the second and third photos, called Fairfield, which was advertised as serving the golf club. The club however was a good half mile away, most of it uphill. The halt lasted until 1939. (Information taken from 'The Buxton Extension' by JM Bentley and GK Fox).

Paul.

*The wind just got worse as the day drew on, after taking these photos I went out for a hack on my road bike. Not pleasant cycling weather, but at least the rain held of until I was back indoors...