page_title: Whatstandwell railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Whatstandwell railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Whatstandwell Station with Up freight. View NW, towards Matlock, Buxton and Manchester; ex-Midland Peak main line, Derby - Matlock, Buxton and Manchester. The short Up Class H freight may be a Military Special, judging by the number chalked on the smokebox of Stanier 8F 2-8-0 No. 48547
context_page_description: Whatstandwell railway station is a railway station owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. It serves the villages of Whatstandwell and Crich Carr in Derbyshire, England. The station is located on the Derwent Valley Line from Derby to Matlock.
  There is a ticketing machine on the single platform, or a full range of tickets for travel for any destination in the country may be purchased from the guard on the train at no extra cost.
context_section_description: Opened by the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway in 1849, though it was not listed in the timetable until 1853. The first station was "Watstandwell Bridge" (sic) north of the 149-yard (136 m) Whatstandwell Tunnel, behind the Derwent Hotel. The original platform still exists, though the area was used as a goods yard when the present station was opened in 1894. It then became "Whatstandwell".
  A little way north was High Peak Junction at the base of the former rope-worked incline of the Cromford and High Peak Railway.
caption: Whatstandwell Station with Up freight in 1961
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