Hadfield railway station

Hadfield
General information
Location	Hadfield, High Peak England
Coordinates	53°27′40″N 1°57′54″W / 53.461°N 1.965°W / 53.461; -1.965
Grid reference	SK023959
Managed by	Northern Trains
Transit authority	Transport for Greater Manchester[note 1]
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	HDF
Classification	DfT category E
History
Original company	Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
7 August 1844 (1844-08-07)	Station opened
Passengers
2018/19	0.401 million
2019/20	0.397 million
2020/21	0.110 million
2021/22	0.238 million
2022/23	0.225 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Hadfield railway station serves the Peak District town of Hadfield in Derbyshire, England. The station is one of the twin termini at the Derbyshire end of the Manchester-Glossop Line, the other being Glossop. It was opened by the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1844.

The line formerly continued east of Hadfield to Penistone and Sheffield via the Woodhead Tunnel. Passenger trains on the Woodhead Line were withdrawn east of Hadfield on 5 January 1970, followed by complete closure in 1981. The tracks were lifted several years later, but the trackbed is still visible and has been partly adapted as a footpath. Since the end of through passenger services to Penistone and Sheffield, only the former eastbound platform has been used and the section westwards to the junction at Dinting is now single track.

Hadfield is the eastern terminus for local trains to/from Manchester Piccadilly. From 1954 until 1984 the station was served by Class 506 electric multiple units (EMUs), latterly the only British Rail EMUs capable of operating on the Woodhead Line's non-standard 1,500 V DC electric system. In December 1984 the line was converted to the standard 25,000 V AC system and the Class 506s were withdrawn and replaced by Class 303 EMUs.

The Class 303 EMUs were replaced by Class 305 EMUs in the mid-1990s, the Class 305 EMUs were replaced by Class 323 EMUs in 1997.
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