Great Longstone Station
Great Longstone Station
![Steps linking the Up platform with the overbridge.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image1-415.jpg)
![Both platforms are still intact and have a generous length.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image2-415.jpg)
![A grand station serving a small village.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image3-415.jpg)
![From under the bridge, the view towards Buxton and Manchester.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image4-412.jpg)
![Steps lead down to the former Up platform.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image5-404.jpg)
![Between the platforms, the trackbed disappears towards Bakewell.](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image6-385.jpg)
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Steps linking the Up platform with the overbridge.
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![](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image3-415.jpg)
![](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image4-412.jpg)
![](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image5-404.jpg)
![](http://www.forgottenrelics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image6-385.jpg)
Great Longstone officially closed in 1962 after a century of service but, for another five years, it remained open to a lone passenger. On a daily basis, one train in each direction would stop to ferry Sister Boardman to and from her work at a Buxton hospital.