Hope railway station (England)


Hope railway station serves the villages of Hope and Brough in the Derbyshire Peak District of England, west of.
The station lies between the two villages, around 1 km east of Hope, and also serves Bradwell and Castleton, the latter being a notable tourist spot, famous for its caverns and the gemstone called Blue John.
It was opened in 1894 on the Midland Railway's Dore and Chinley line. It was reduced to unstaffed halt status in 1969 and has lost its station buildings.
The station was renamed from Hope Village to Hope on 6 May 1974. The Summer 1961 timetable showed it as Hope. At that time North Western and Pashley provided connecting buses to those villages to meet most trains.
Just west of Hope the line passes between Win Hill and Lose Hill. Also a short distance to the west is Earle's Sidings, the exchange yard for the privately owned and operated long branch line to the Hope Cement factory and quarry sited south of Hope village.

Facilities

As noted, the station is unmanned; however Northern installed automatic ticket vending machines at the station in 2018 to allow passengers to buy tickets before boarding. The only remaining structures here are a lattice footbridge and standard shelters on each platform. Train running information is provided via CIS displays, automated announcements, a pay phone and timetable poster boards. No step-free access is available to either platform.

Service

The typical off-peak service was one train every two hours to Sheffield and one to Manchester Piccadilly until 2018. This has now been increased to that seen on Saturdays, namely one train per hour in each direction; on Sundays the service is two-hourlyin the morning but improved to hourly in the afternoon.
East Midlands Railway call here with the first service of the day to Manchester and also on the final return working. All other services are provided by Northern Trains. A normal weekday service operates on most Bank holidays.