Hadfield railway station

rdf:langString Hadfield railway station

rdf:langString Hadfield

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rdf:langString DfT category E

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rdf:langString Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

rdf:langString Dinting

rdf:langString Glossop

rdf:langString Dinting

rdf:langString Manchester-Glossop via Hadfield

rdf:langString Manchester-Hadfield via Glossop

rdf:langString Manchester-Hadfield

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rdf:langString 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 Passenger trains on the Woodhead Line were withdrawn east of Hadfield on 5 January 1970, followed by complete closure in 1981.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 1500 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 In December 1984 the line was converted to the standard 25,000 V AC system and the Class 506s were withdrawn and replaced by Class 303 EMUs.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. Trains at Hadfield are now mostly formed of Class 323 EMUs, sometimes Class 331 EMUs are used.