announced that completion was now expected to be by spring 2024 and the cost had risen to £145 million. In May 2019, a canopy was added to the 1872 station building. Station masters At the Eckington Petty Session on 25 November 1878, Francis Wood, stationmaster, was charged with embezzling money belonging to the Midland Railway company amounting to 1s. 1/2d. The railway company had auditors who travelled beyond the validity of their ticket and then paid the station master an excess fare. He appeared at the Derby Quarter Sessions on 2 January 1879. The jury found him not guilty and he was discharged. Nathaniel Atrill 1873 - 1875 H. Pykett 1875 - 1876 Francis Wood 1876 - 1878 (taken into custody) Mark Millard 1879 - 1913 John James Cook from 1913 Frederick Maltby 1925 - 1929 (afterwards station master at Wirksworth) C.W. Bamford 1930 - 1936 (also station master at Beauchief, afterwards station master at Lichfield) H. Riley from 1936 Facilities The station is unstaffed, but has a self-service ticket machine available. The old station buildings are now in private commercial use as a restaurant. A small brick waiting shelter is provided at the northern end of the platform, along with passenger information displays, automatic announcements and timetable poster boards to offer train running information. Step-free access is available from the adjacent car park to the platform. Services The station has an hourly Northern Trains stopping service in each direction on the Hope Valley line between Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly, augmented by a number of peak-hour stops (designed primarily for Manchester bound commuters) by faster trains on the South Trans-Pennine and Liverpool–Norwich routes. During the rest of the day those hourly TransPennine Express services and East Midlands Railway non-stopping trains pass through. Notes References Peter Fox (1990). The Midland Line in Sheffield. Sheffield: Platform 5 Publishing Ltd. Peter Harvey (1996). Abbeydale and Millhouses. Stround: The Charlford Publishing Company Limited. Ecclesall Woods Archaeology - Heritage Woods Online. Railway stations in Sheffield DfT Category F2 stations Former Midland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1872 Railway stations served by East Midlands Railway Railway stations served by TransPennine Express Northern franchise railway stations John Holloway Sanders railway stations