Future
Transport for Greater Manchester has proposed increasing the frequency of services between Buxton/Hazel Grove and Manchester Piccadilly to 2/4 trains per hour from December 2009. However there are currently concerns about the availability of stock and paths for these additional services.
Network Rail has proposed, in their North West RUS, installing a cross-over which will allow platform 1 to become fully operational as an arrival and departure platform. Doing this will reduce the number of shunt moves.
Read more about this topic: Buxton Railway Station (Derbyshire)
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“Where have those flowers and butterflies all gone
That science may have staked the future on?
He seems to say the reason why so much
Should come to nothing must be fairly faced.....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)