Rowsley South is the headquarters and Northern terminus of the Peak Rail preserved line which runs from Matlock.
Information
Type:
Preserved Railway
(Peak Rail)
Opened:
1997
Platforms:
1
Rowsley station was a stop on the line between Buxton and Matlock. It opened in 1849 and closed in 1967, the line also closing as far as Matlock in 1968. Peak Rail began re-opening part of the line in the 1990s. In 1997 the restored line was extended from Darley Dale to within about eight hundred metres of the old Rowsley station [1].
A new station was built on the site of Rowsley station's former goods yard, once a busy goods hub which moved over seventeen thousand wagons a week [2], and named Rowsley South. Peak Rail plan to extend their line as far as Rowsley and Bakewell in future though until then Rowsley South remains the terminus.
A number of sidings of the former goods yard have also been re-opened and are used for stock storage and a number of preservation soceities including the Heritage Shunters Trust.
A Peak in the Peaks, Class 44 D8
Class 01 shunter D2953 gives a brake van ride at a gala
09 001 inside the Heritage Shunters Trust shed
Preparing for token exchange
Lord Phil prepares to depart
31 270 at the head of a train bound for Matlock
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, Ambergate to Buxton (Middleton Press, 2019) Fig. 106 [2] Ibid. Map. IX
