Chinley railway station serves the village of Chinley in Derbyshire, England. The station is south east of Manchester Piccadilly, on the Hope Valley Line from Sheffield to Manchester. It is unstaffed and is managed by Northern Trains. History The original station was built in 1867 by the Midland Railway on the extension of its Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway, which became its main line to London from Manchester. Originally, the Midland had planned to extend through Buxton, but the LNWR already had a line there. So, the Midland built a line through Chinley and Buxworth to join the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway at New Mills; this was an association which became known as the Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee. From Millers Dale, the line crossed the Black Brook valley at Chapel Milton. This became a double viaduct when the Dore and Chinley line was built in 1894, with a north curve forming a triangular junction just over a mile to the east. Congestion soon became a problem on the section west of Chinley and so the Midland quickly sought parliamentary approval to add additional capacity, with the enabling act passed in 1900 and the contract for a replacement station let shortly afterwards. The new station was opened on 1 June 1902, when the line through Disley Tunnel to Heaton Mersey (and thence on to ) was opened and the extra tracks between Chinley North Junction & New Mills South Junction were commissioned. It also became the terminus of the Dore and Chinley line, instead of Buxton. The old station buildings were dismantled and re-erected on Maynestone Road as a private house. By 1904, Chinley had become an important junction between Manchester, London St Pancras and , with five through platforms and one east-facing bay, with four main tracks passing through it. Many express trains from the Midlands and London would call there to attach or detach coaches for destinations in the North West (including and High Level), as well as the main Midland terminus at Manchester Central. This practice became somewhat less prevalent after the 1923 Grouping when the London, Midland and Scottish Railway took over but, in the 1930s, some 40 eastbound and 38 westbound trains either called or started/terminated at the station each weekday. Decline After World War II and the nationalisation of the railways in January 1948, passenger traffic from the station declined