Matlock railway station

The station opened in 1849 under the name Matlock Bridge, at a time when trains went no further than Rowsley. The name was shortened in 1905. Buxton was reached in 1863 and Manchester in 1867.

The station buildings were put into service in 1850. Their designer was Joseph Paxton, also the creator of the Crystal Palace in London.

The line beyond Matlock was shut in 1968. In 2011 Peak Rail opened its own platform here, Platform 2.

The 1850 station building has been altered since it opened.

The station master's house next door is part of the station complex the Midland Railway developed on the line between Derby and Buxton. It has been Grade II listed since 16 February 1996. At listing it was described as an L-plan house of squared gritstone blocks laid in regular courses, with ashlar dressings, under a Welsh slate roof, with two storeys and three bays on the south front, an open entrance porch in the angle of the two ranges and an enclosed courtyard at the rear.

The site is still a working station: the main line from Derby ends there at Platform 1, and the Peak Rail heritage line has its southern terminus at Platform 2.

The Friends of Matlock Station have looked after the station since 2007, including the planters along the platform.

The station sits on the opposite bank of the river from the town centre. A footpath links the footbridge to the old station master's house and carries on to the junction of Dale Road and the road bridge over the river, where the town centre begins.

Platform 2, on the Peak Rail side, is reached by a ramped footbridge at the south end of the station.