<b>Millers Dale for Tideswell station</b><br>The old railway station at Millers Dale (no apostrophe), taken back in 2012. The station was originally to be called "Blackwell Mill" but in the end was named as in the title of this shot. The station was one of the largest on the line, despite serving a tiny scattered rural population, and was one of the few UK stations to feature a Post Office on its platform. It was basically the junction station for passengers to change for Buxton, although the junction was a few miles away. A good deal of freight traffic was handled by the station, including stone from nearby quarries and dairy and agricultural produce. The station was opened in 1863 and closed in 1967, although freight traffic continued to pass through until final closure of the line in 1968. Millers Dale was known as "Patience Junction" locally, owing to the time you could be waiting for a connection, and is immortalised in Flanders &amp; Swann's "Slow Train".
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/68333">John Winder</a>
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