As from May 20th there will be significant changes to train times to and from Glossop. These are part of the improvements planned by Northern to local train services. As these are still being worked on we offer this information only as a guide.
 Off peak weekday trains will leave at 18 minutes past and 48 minutes to the hour. Return trains from Manchester Piccadilly at 29 and 59. All peak trains recast with a new early morning departure at 05.53. Late evening extra return services at 20.29 20.59 21.28 21.58 22.29 23.27. A new slightly earlier Sunday departure from Glossop at 09.55.
 Go to National Rail Enquiries nationalrail.co.uk (phone 03457484950) for more detailed information. New printed timetables available from 1st June.
 Please also note there will be NO Trains to/from Glossop on SATURDAY APRIL 21ST DUE TO ENGINEERING WORKS. A bus replacement service will operate.

A NEW permanent display is now on view in the Waiting Room.
An abbreviated version of our Poetry Platform display from last year, it tells the story of the part Glossop played in the Lowestoft Evacuation of June 1940 and celebrates the continuing links between the two towns.
Several of the evacuees and their families unveiled a commemorative plaque on the station when they visited us from Lowestoft in June last year.
The new display, which includes some first hand accounts, is a reminder of those events from the second World War.

IN SUNNY but very cold weather the formal launch of the new historical display boards took place at Glossop, Dinting and Hadfield stations today. At Glossop Kulvinder Bassi Team Leader Community Rail at The Department for Transport in London did the honours and at Dinting, Derbyshire and High Peak Borough Councillors George and Jean Wharmby did the unveiling. George is the current Chair of the High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership. At Hadfield renowned railway author EM Johnson unveiled the board there. Joy Hallsworth - Friends of Hadfield Station - and Neil gave speeches of welcome at their respective stations. In turn our principal guests also gave speeches preceding the unveilings.
Other welcome guests included Andrew Walker from the HPHVCRP, Vicky Cropper Community and Sustainability Manager from Northern, Simon Brooks Station Manger ( we thank Simon and Carillion staff for all the snow clearing of platforms and car parks preceding the launch!), Anne Michaelides the designer from naturesigndesign who has such done an excellent job with the boards, Mike Brown from Glossop Heritage Trust, Andy Griffin from Network Rail and Steve Forde from SEMCRP. Making his first visit as ACoRP representative was Ian Davies who had made an early start from West Yorkshire to join us. Other fellow friends from station groups also joined us.  Their support was much appreciated following the wintry weather of the weekend!
Paul Abell, former editor of Today's Railways, and his wife Shirley were made welcome too. Paul is involved in Phase Two of the boards and has been a diligent advisor of the English used in the three launched today!
Refreshments including home made soup and cake were served in the warm community rooms of Hadfield Hall from 12.30 onwards. Joy and her team had organised these in a very efficient manner. Tasty sandwiches were kindly donated by Mike Ball from TWIG cafe whose ongoing support remains staunch.
The boards are the culmination of a three year project by the Friends of Glossop and The Friends of Hadfield Stations. They have been funded by the HPHVCRP in conjunction with Northern. We are very grateful for Andrew Walker's ongoing commitment to the project. We thank too Mike Brown, Margaret Buxton-Doyle and other local sources for permissions to use archive photographs.
A phase two for similar boards at other Glossop line stations is underway. We see these boards as not only celebrating the rich historical legacies of the stations but as springboards to marketing and tourism initiatives currently under development with our community rail partnerships and Northern.
We hope you enjoy viewing them!

 On Monday 19th March between 11.30 and 1pm our new Community Historical Information Boards will be formally launched at Glossop, Dinting and Hadfield stations. Kulvinder Bassi, Team Leader for Community Rail at The Department for Transport, will do the honours at Glossop. We extend a warm welcome to Kul! At Dinting County and Borough Councillors George and Jean Wharmby will be our guests to launch the board there at around 12.00. George is the current Chair of the High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership. The Partnership has supported and  funded this project. At Hadfield, at around 12.15, the board there will be launched by renowned Woodhead Railway Author, EM Johnson. Other guests from Northern, Network Rail, Glossop Heritage Trust and fellow station friends' groups will also be present. We hope the weather will be kind and we extend a warm welcome  to anyone else who would like to join us at the stations on the day.

 We are delighted to welcome Sue Finley and her paintings to the Station Waiting Room Art Gallery. Sue paints using a variety of mediums - she is inspired by natural landscapes particularly tree forms and vibrant colours are a feature of her work. Sue is a member art groups in Glossop and she regularly attends workshops and demonstrations.
 Sue has eleven paintings on display which can be viewed daily when the booking office is open. Sue can be contacted at suelfinley@hotmail.com

New Community Historical Information Boards have recently been installed at Glossop, Hadfield and Dinting stations. They are the culmination of a three year project supported and funded by the High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership. Inspired by the DfT award of Community Rail status to the Glossop Line in 2013, the content has been created by Neil Williams and Joy Hallsworth at the friends' groups at Glossop and Hadfield stations. Kind permission to use pictures was given by Glossop Heritage Trust and the renowned Woodhead Line author, EM Johnson. The intention is to create a similar board at each of the other nine stations on the Glossop Line and work is well underway with fellow friends' groups and guest writers on Phase Two.

 The boards have been designed by Anne Michaelides at www.naturesign design.co.uk whose enthusiasm and attention to detail for the project has been much appreciated!

 There will be a formal launch of the boards next month. More details of this event soon.

 We do hope you will enjoy viewing them! Joy and Neil would like to thank Andrew Walker at the partnership for his staunch and patient support of the project and to Anne for all her hard work. They would also like to thank Vicky Cropper, Community and Sustainability Manager at Northern for all her help and advice and Simon Brooks Line Manager for his interest and for arranging the installations so speedily! We also appreciate Steve Ford's help at SEMCRP for Phase Two work and funding advice.

 We extend a warm welcome to our first new artist of 2018 - Sue Finlay. Sue, who is from Glossop, has on display in the Waiting Room Art Gallery eleven contrasting paintings. Sue works in enjoys experimenting with a wide range of styles and techniques. She uses oils, acrylics, pastels, water colours and inks. Her inspiration comes from natural landscapes particularly tree forms. Sometimes these are presented in a semi abstract manner but vibrant colours underpin her work.
Sue belongs to the art groups in Glossop. She regularly attends workshops and demonstrations. After a long career in teaching both in the UK and overseas Sue now has time to pursue her art with enthusiasm!
The paintings can be viewed daily when the booking office is open.

  Sue's pictures may be purchased:

  suefinlay@hotmail.com   07798921314

  We hope you enjoy seeing Sue's work.

 A very happy and healthy New Year to you from FOGS.

 May we say thank you for the kind comments that have been passed to us about our Christmas decorations at Glossop station? We enjoy making the station look festive. Our appreciation to all those who helped us to do this and our thanks to Glossop Garden Centre for providing the tree and an extra set of lights! The tree really sparkled this year!

 Our plans for the year include the installation of Glossop Line historic information boards at Glossop, Hadfield and Dinting stations. After two years of preparation and ongoing staunch support from the High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership along with Northern these boards are now at the manufacturing stage. More information to follow. We are also exploring with Steve Ford at SEMCRP and Northern the possible next stage of creating the same style boards for the other stations on the Glossop Line
 We also hope to hold a collaborative event with our fellow friends' groups at Hadfield, Hattersley and Guide Bridge to commemorate Armistice in October 2018. More details to follow in due course. We will of course publicise these and other events on this website.

FATHER CHRISTMAS paid his annual visit to Glossop Station on Saturday and a very happy occasion it was too! Because of the new ticket gates a lot of thought had gone into a revised approach and layout the main objective being to avoid a large queuing crowd. So this year Santa was in residence for an hour and a half in the Waiting Room to greet children and their families. Around fifty to sixty families came during this period to see him and receive a small free gift. It worked well. Travellers moved through the gates to and from trains enjoying en route the sounds of SPINDRIFT'S lovely music and enjoying the spectacle of Santa!
The station looked its festive best helping to contribute to the happy mood. Our thanks to Laura and Thea for manning the tree decoration stall which was kept very busy. The tree looked really good and we must thank GLOSSOP GARDEN CENTRE for their generous donation of the tree and an extra set of lights. Special thanks to our guest, Mrs Linda Walker, who switched on our tree lights. Linda was accompanied by her husband Andrew, Rail Officer for the High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership and their grandchildren. It was really nice to welcome them back! Simon Brooks, our Northern line manager, was there throughout helping in many ways and joining in the fun. With the revised layout it was really useful having Simon there. He has said that the popular model railway stand can return next year as there is space. Good news for its many fans!
We would also like to thank Vicky Cropper Community and Sustainability Manager at Northern for her keen support and help. To the gating staff at Glossop our appreciation for their enthusiasm and assistance and to the booking office staff, their patience.
The Glossop Chronicle and High Peak Radio promoted the event in advance. Our thanks. And to Pete Gaskell, Simon Denvers, Jo Meek and Paul Marsh sincere thanks for ensuring advance publicity was spread on social media.
And to Father Christmas himself who was cheerily waved off back to Lapland on the 13.07 train from Glossop - heartfelt thanks for finding the time to visit! This year Neil got him on the right train home!!

We are pleased to announce that our popular Christmas event at Glossop Station will take place on Saturday 2nd December between 11.30 am and 1.15. Following the installation of ticket gates at the station this summer we are having to make some changes to the way we run this event. It will not be possible, as in previous years, to greet Father Christmas as he arrives by train from Lapland. However Santa will be in residence in the station waiting room from 11.30 to 1pm ready to greet every child with his or her family. Every child will be given a free gift and the chance to speak to Santa! It will be possible to wave Santa off on his train back to Lapland at 13.08. So a goodbye wave this year rather than a hello one!!

There will also be an opportunity to make a Christmas Tree decoration again for the station's tree kindly donated by Glossop Garden Centre. The station will be decorated in readiness for Christmas by Bunty Gibson, Chris Harris and their team.

Music will be provided by the popular Folk Group SPINDRIFT making a very welcome return to the station.

The Christmas tree light switch on will be by Mrs Linda Walker, wife of Andrew, Rail Partnership Officer for the High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership. Linda is a staunch supporter of our Christmas event and we are delighted she will switch on our lights this year!
 
Our thanks to Simon Brooks our Northern Line manager for his help in organising this event and, at Northern Square One HQ, to Vicky Cropper and Liam Sumpter for invaluable help and assistance.
 
We look forward to welcoming you to our 2017 Christmas event at Glossop Station!