Strines railway station serves the village of

Strines Strines is a village in Greater Manchester, in the valley of the River Goyt. It is located midway between Marple and New Mills, about six miles south-east of Stockport. The village falls within the Marple parish and the Metropolitan Borough o ...

and the hamlet of

Turf Lea Turf Lea is a hamlet located at the end of The Ridge, above Marple, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK. Nearby is Wybersley Hall, where the author Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood ...

in the

Metropolitan Borough of Stockport The Metropolitan Borough of Stockport is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. It is south-east of central Manchester and south of Tameside. As well as the towns of Stockport, Bredbury and Marple, Greater Manchester, Marple, ...

, in

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. Until boundary changes in 1994, the station itself lay over the border in

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History

The Marple, New Mills and Hayfield Junction Railway (MNM&HJ) was formed in 1860; its line between

New Mills New Mills is a small town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England, south-east of Stockport and from Manchester at the confluence of the River Goyt and River Sett, Sett. It is close to the border with Cheshire and above the Torrs, a ...

and was opened on 1 July 1865. Originally, there were no intermediate stations but one was opened at Strines in August 1866. The MNM&HJ was leased to and worked by the

Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR) was formed in 1847 when the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway joined with authorised but unbuilt railway companies, forming a proposed network from Manchester to Grims ...

(MS&L) from opening, but was absorbed jointly by the MS&L and the

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 in rail transport, 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had ...

following an Act of 24 June 1869. It then became part of the

Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee The Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee was incorporated by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and Midland Railway Companies (Joint Lines) Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. xxv) as a joint venture between the Midland Railwa ...

, an undertaking formed on 6 August 1872. The latter was renamed the

Great Central and Midland Joint Railway The Great Central and Midland Joint Railway, formerly, before 1897, Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee, was a collection of joint railways, mainly in the Manchester and South Yorkshire areas. Description of route In the South Y ...

in the early twentieth century. Originally, there were no goods or coal facilities but the MS&L agreed to these late in 1870. The station had a substantial stone-built booking office and waiting room, with a stationmaster's house. These were considered sufficiently impressive to be used as location shoots for films in the early 1970s. They disappeared when the station became an unstaffed halt in 1973.

Services

The station hosts an hourly daytime service in each direction between and on Mondays to Saturdays, with additional calls during weekday peak periods. On Sundays, hourly services operate between and Manchester Piccadilly.

In literature

It is believed that the inspiration for

Edith Nesbit Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political ...

's 1906 novel ''

The Railway Children ''The Railway Children'' is a children's book by E. Nesbit, Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in ''The London Magazine'' during 1905 and published in book form in the same year. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the ...

'' came from Strines.

References

External links

Railway stations in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Central and Midland Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Railway stations served by Northern 1866 establishments in England {{GreaterManchester-railstation-stub