Caption:

As can be seen, there was clearly a second track

through this station at one time. In fact, it is difficult to believe and not helped by the drearily dull day, that this was a station on the main route from London St Pancras to Manchester and anything from Midland Compounds through Royal Scots to Peak diesels would have thundered through on that lifted track. The station is Matlock, which was closed for some time before local campaigners forced BR’s hand into reopening just this section, from what was the famous triangular junction station at Ambergate on the Midland’s Sheffield line. By this time all the stopping points had been reduced to unstaffed halts.