Buxton

CRS Code	BUX
Collected date	22/09/18

Buxton was the start of a day's cycling in Derbyshire. The plan was to get to Buxton by rail and then to cycle via the Monsal Trail to Chesterfield. Buxton itself has the remnants of a very impressive station building. Here's its frontage from across the car park:

Looking along the frontage from its eastern end:

To the west of the station building is the retaining wall of the station connecting to the end wall with its impressive fan window:

A doorway in the retaining wall:

Looking along the retaining wall back towards the main building:

The fan window at the end has London and North Western Railway Co engraved around it:

These plaques mark the restoration of the fan window in 2009, and note that it is all that remains of the original LNWR station:

This end wall has a (boarded up) doorway in it with an ornate lamp bracket above:

A peek around the corner to show the rear of the fan window:

Looking back along the fan window wall:

Returning to the front of the station building we find another plaque, marking the Granville Canadian Red Cross Special Hospital's opening in 1917:

Inside the station building is the waiting room:

As the plaques on the fan window told us, the LNWR building was one of a pair of matching buildings, the other for the Midland Railway, roughly where the car park and road are now. There's a model in the waiting room of the Midland building:

Inside the model "trainshed":

On platform 2, where there's a small wooden canopy and assorted bike racks and such:

Beyond the station building to the east is an open end of platform 2:

Rather more unadorned the further along you go:

Looking west back at the station building:

A tile map of Buxton on the wall under the canopy:

Made of bits and bobs of railwayana is this sculpture of Joe:

Coming with an explanatory note:

Looking west on platform 2; the way to get round to platform 1 is to go round the end of the buffers:

From the buffers looking east:

Immediately behind me is this; Buxton is the only station I've ever seen containing a Zen garden:

Platform 1 runs along the other side of the tracks and just has shelters and benches:

Looking back along platform 1:

The old yard just north of the current station was demolished but there are still a few bits of track left. Here's a crossing over one of them:

Looking east from the end of platform 1:

In the distance is Buxton (or Buxto, apparently) signalbox:

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