Middlewood

Middlewood is one of those rare survivals in Britain - a railway station with no road access. If you want to catch the train from here you walk along public footpaths to get there. At one time there were two stations here, as the former Macclesfield to Marple line that crossed on the bridge in the background had a rather rickety set of wooden buildings and platforms. Eventually part one of the platforms slid to oblivion down the embankment during the 1950s. That station was closed in 1960, ten years before the line itself, but the one here on the ex LNWR line to Buxton from Stockport continues to see services calling. In fact the service here is better on a Sunday than any other day of the week as nearly all trains stop rather than every other one. In the nineteenth century the land to the right was occupied by the sidings and loading chutes serving the Norbury and Middlewood collieries of Messrs Clayton and Brooke which closed in 1892.