As on many routes a temporary timetable is being operated by Northern. Weekday train services from Glossop to stations to Manchester Piccadilly are listed below:
 5.53SX 5.54SO 6.13SX 6.19SO 7.17SX 7.22S0 7.52 8.52 9.22 10.22 10.52 11.52 12.22 13.22 13.52 14.52 15.22 16.22 16.52 17.52 18.22 19.22 19.52 20.52 21.22 22.22 22.53

Trains leave Hadfield approximately 5 minutes before the above times

Return times from Manchester Piccadilly:
6.24SX 6.30so 7.03so 7.07sx 8.03 8.33 9.33 10.03 11.03 11.33 12.33 13.03 14.03 14.33 15.33 16.03 17.03 17.32 18.32 19.03 20.03 20.32 21.33 22.00 23.29

All trains continue to Hadfield.

Sunday services remain on a 30 minute frequency - first departure to Manchester 9.55 10.19 ..... last train 21.51
Return times 9.29 10.03......last train 21.01

Full timetables can be found on Northern's website. Table 24  Copies on display at Glossop and Dinting stations in FOGS' display cases.
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National Rail enquiries:nationalrail.co.uk
03457 48 49 50

 We are delighted to announce that the final five heritage information boards are now in situ at Broadbottom, Godley, Newton for Hyde, Flowery Field and Guide Bridge. This project to equip every station on the Glossop line with a generic but individual board has taken three and a half years to complete - the installation of the last five was heavily delayed by coronavirus restrictions. The boards lay in store for almost a year. Every station en route now has its own unique board and we hope passengers will enjoy seeking them out or playing " spot the board " as they travel by train! The boards were expertly installed by Rick Hall form Buxton with assistance from Neil Williams. Permission to install the boards was kindly given by Mark Buckley from Northern following submission of method statements and site photos. Neil comments, " This project has been the most complex that FOGS has organised but we feel a sense of pride now the project is complete. The boards should tie-in well with the current emphasis of promoting leisure travel by train along with the newly published leaflet Visit the Glossop Line by Train." peakdistrictbytrain.org
 Helen Wright job share Partnership Officer for The High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership said, "These panels provide rail passengers with a unique insight into their own community history. This is a fantastic way to connect communities to their local train stations and to encourage more train travel." The project has involved various friends groups and interested individuals along the route who have created the contents for the boards. As well as local history and photos the boards endeavour to point out nearby local amenities. Funding for the boards came from the two Community Rail Partnerships that cover the Glossop Rail Line - the High Peak and Hope Valley and, for GM stations, South East Manchester. The costs of installing the recent five were generously met by TfGM and Northern. The boards were designed by Anne Michaelides at naturesigndesign who showed patience and professionalism throughout their creation.
 FOGS would like to record the sterling efforts made by the late Paul Abell ( former editor of Today's Railways UK in the creation of these boards. Paul created the contents for the boards at Ashburys and Gorton and checked all the other boards for technical and historical accuracy. We would also like to thank Steve Forde former Rail Officer for SEMCRP for support during the difficult period of restrictions and his successor officer, John Kenny, for his recent help. Mark Angelucci (TfGM) and Becky Styles Community and Sustainability Manager for Northern have stalwartly supported the project to its conclusion - we thank them for their enthusiasm and interest!
 We hope to have a formal launch of these final five boards at one of the stations in the next couple of months. We will publicise the date of this once it is known.
 Enjoy the boards!!

We are delighted to welcome back Glossop based artist Ailsa Johnson to the Waiting Room Art Gallery. Ailsa was very pleased with the feedback she received from her first display. This time she has 8 new pictures on display which reflect her wide interests. Ailsa finds inspiration in nature, colours, light, textures, poetry, song lyrics......
Ailsa loved colouring and drawing as a child and went to Art College. She did not however use these skills in her career and it was only in 2019, following an Art evening class at Glossop library, that Ailsa returned to painting and drawing.
Ailsa hopes that everyone finds a creative hobby that gives as much pleasure as hers does!
She invites you to go and see her work (Waiting Room at Glossop Station open every day from early morning to early evening)

All art work is for sale. Click here to contact Ailsa by email, via Instagram or go to her website ailsart.com

Ailsa gratefully acknowledges that all her paintings were framed by Gemma Holmes at High Peak Framers, Glossop  highpeakframing.co.uk

 Due to staff sickness Northern is currently running an amended and reduced service on the Glossop line on weekdays FROM 4TH JANUARY 2022 until further notice. It is a mix of a 60 and a 30 minute service. Please note that the 8.22 and 9.52 departures to Manchester Piccadilly, two very popular services, are not currently running. Check train times before you travel. Note that all connecting services may be subject to alteration and cancellation too.

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Glossop Line timetable is Number 24 on Northern timetable website

Friends of Glossop Station were saddened on Friday to learn of the death in October of former Today's Railways magazine editor Paul Abell.
In recent years Paul had played an instrumental role in the creation of contents of the Heritage Information Boards project on the Glossop Line. Neil Williams Chair of FOGS had asked Paul in 2017 if he would create the contents for Ashburys and Gorton stations. Paul kindly agreed to do this. Neil comments, " As soon as I saw the first draft of the Ashburys board which began.....everybody knows who Manchester Victoria is named after, but what about Ashburys?.....I knew that Paul's personal writing style would draw the reader in!"
Neil continues," Paul had extensive railway knowledge of traction, stations and routes. But he wore this knowledge lightly. It was always a privilege to be in his company and listen to past making sense of present. Social history was embedded into his knowledge too. Visiting Gorton once with Paul he created a picture in words of its former mighty engineering works along with the people who once worked there."
 In 2019 the boards, after much checking over a period of six months, were produced by Anne Michaelides of naturesigndesign and, with Northern and SEMCRP's support, installed at the two stations. In December 2019 Paul accompanied by his wife Shirley and Steve Forde formally launched the two boards at the stations. A proud moment!
 Paul also kindly agreed to check the contents of the remaining five boards that were under production in this period. His editorial skills ensured that all errors were removed as the contents went back and forth to Anne. We are indebted to his patient appraisal of these contents.
 Paul was a true gentleman in spirit and personality. He will be much missed in the railway world. Friends of Glossop Station would like to offer our deepest sympathies to Shirley and his family.

Newly published and now available is a new leaflet Visit the Glossop Line by Train. This is aimed at encouraging leisure use of the line particularly for visitors from further afield. For each station on the route there are suggestions as to what can be seen and visited nearby. We believe this is the first time such a leaflet has been available.
The content of the leaflet has been created by FOGS and The High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership. It has been three years in the making. The launch of the leaflet was at a recent Partnership meeting in Edale along with companion leaflets for the Buxton and the Hope Valley lines.
All three leaflets can be accessed online at peakdistrictbytrain.org. Copies can also be obtained at local stations including Glossop. FOGS would like to thank Andrew Walker former Partnership Officer and Catherine Croney current Partnership Officer (along with Helen Wright) for invaluable help and support with this project.

All the Christmas decorations at Glossop Station are now in place. Many hours of volunteer work have created a festive scene. The work was completed this morning with the installation of a Christmas tree kindly donated once again  by Glossop Garden Centre. We are very grateful for their ongoing support. Our thanks also to Mike Ball owner of TWIG station cafe for supply of electricity to power the lights on the tree.
  Our apologies that we will not be holding our popular Father Christmas event at the station this year. We are currently exploring different and safe ways of offering it again in 2022. As a local alternative may we suggest the Santa event at Glossop Garden Centre on Saturday 11th December from 11am to 3pm? Father Christmas will be live at this event. Also joining the event for part of its duration will be popular local singing trio SPINDRIFT who have played at many of our Christmas events at the station.
 Our thanks to Rebecca Styles Community and Sustainability Manager at Northern and Theo McLauchlan, our Northern Line Manager, for their permissions and support for the festive decorations.

 Today Saturday 27th November a presentation took place at Lowestoft station in honour of Chris Brooks, Secretary of the Lowestoft Evacuation Society, being given Freedom of the Town. The presentation was made by the Town Mayor in the restored Parcels Office with around fifty guests - many of whom were former evacuees. Hosted by Martin Halliday Community Rail Development Officer the event recognised the years of work that Chris has put in keeping the Evacuation story alive in Lowestoft and towns such as Glossop where many evacuees lived from 2nd June 1940 onwards. A message of congratulations from Neil Williams Chair of FOGS was read out by Martin.

On Saturday 20th November around 40 friends and family gathered at Glossop station in tribute to the late Sheila and Peter Glover in the company of Shirley Bourke their daughter. Neil Williams of FOGS gave a short address on behalf of Shirley in which he stressed that meeting at the station was very appropriate as it was the first place Sheila arrived at as an evacuee from Lowestoft on 2nd June 1940. Also present were two other former Lowestoft evacuees from this time Iris Ellison and Sheila Mickleburgh both of whom stayed on in Glossop after the end of the war. Everyone took time to look at the display in the Waiting Room which featured pictures of Sheila and Peter and family paintings donated by Shirley. She commented that she was touched by the number of friends and family that came along.

 The display can be seen daily in the Waiting Room at Glossop Station.

 We would like to thank the staff at the station for their support and help.