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Edale

CRS Code EDL
Collected date 18/09/18

Edale sign

The start of a new day, so it's the Hope Valley Line to Edale, a simple two-platform station just below Kinder Scout. A path leads from the car park approach road to platform 1:

Edale platform 1 approach

To our right a subway leads to the other side of the line:

Edale platform 1 subway

The path leads on to platform 1, just behind the way out sign here:

Edale platform 1 entrance

Platform 1 also backs on to the car park:

Edale platform 1 looking east

A sign on platform 1 is keen to tell us that Edale station is for the Pennine Way and the Moorland Centre:

Edale for the Pennine Way and the Moorland Centre

From the other platform, a view of platform 1:

Edale platform 1

At the end of platform 1 we look west towards the signalbox:

Edale signalbox

The car park, just to the back of platform 1:

Edale car park

The entrance to the car park from the approach road:

Edale car park entrance

Back down the car park approach road to Mary's Lane, with the railway bridge over the road visible on the right:

Edale bridge

Under the road bridge (which crosses the line to the east of the station), to the approach path to platform 2:

Edale platform 2 entrance

Part way up the path, with the subway on the left:

Edale platform 2 approach

The platform 2 side entrance to the subway:

Edale platform 2 subway

Looking back down the approach path:

Edale platform 2 approach path looking east

The path leads on to platform 2:

Edale platform 2

Looking east along platform 2:

Edale platform 2 looking east

Looking east from the end of platform 2:

Edale platform 2 looking east

Looking west along the line from the other end of platform 2:

Edale looking west