page_title: Buxton line
section_title: Present-day services
hierarchical_section_title: Buxton line / Present-day services
caption_attribution_description: English: Buxton Station on a dull day
context_page_description: The Buxton line is a railway line in Northern England, connecting Manchester with Buxton in Derbyshire. Passenger services on the line are currently operated by Northern Trains.
context_section_description: Over the section between Manchester and Hazel Grove there are three trains per hour in each direction, with extra services at peak hours. The Manchester to Buxton service runs half-hourly, combining with an hourly (daytime-only) Manchester Piccadilly to Hazel Grove service to give Davenport, Woodsmoor and Hazel Grove stations thrice-hourly off peak service to and from Manchester. Through running beyond Manchester ended with the May 2018 timetable change.
  South of Hazel Grove, the off-peak pattern is half-hourly. The hourly Liverpool to Norwich East Midlands Railway and Manchester Airport to Cleethorpes TransPennine Express services run over the Edgeley to Hazel Grove section but only one East Midlands Railway service calls at Hazel Grove on weekday mornings and Sundays, all others being non-stop between Stockport and Sheffield.
  Due to steep gradients on this line, Class 142 and Class 153 DMUs are banned from the section of line between Hazel Grove and Buxton. Therefore, services to Buxton are worked by Class 150 and Class 156 DMUs. Also Class 158 DMUs were once blocked from operating on the line to Buxton due to the possibility of the large roof-mounted air vents striking low bridges on the route. Piccadilly to Hazel Grove services used Class 323 electric multiple units up until 2008 and again since December 2017. Class 319 units are also now diagrammed on local trips to and from Manchester.
  Passenger information systems have been installed at most stations on the line since 2011, including the terminus at Buxton, Hazel Grove, New Mills Newtown and Whaley Bridge.
caption: A Class 156 and a Class 150/2 unit at Buxton station, the line's southern terminus.
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