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Rose Hill Marple railway station is one of two stations serving Marple, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, England, the other being Marple railway station. It is the terminus of a spur of the Hope Valley Line, with services to Manchester Piccadilly calling at Romiley and then taking one of two routes to the regional centre: either via Woodley, Hyde Central, Hyde North, Guide Bridge and Fairfield, or via Bredbury, Brinnington, Reddish North, Ryder Brow and Belle Vue, followed by Ashburys. The station is one of the three which provide access to the Middlewood Way. ==History== The station opened on 2 August 1869. Originally named ''Marple (Rose Hill)'', it was later renamed ''Rose Hill (Marple)'', before the current form ''Rose Hill Marple'' was adopted. It was built on the Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway, with dual tracks and thus two platforms. The second southbound platform (now removed, as the line is operated as a single track 'long siding') had simply a waiting shelter. The remaining station building previously provided an indoor waiting area and was only recently brought back into use in 2007 with a new ticket window operating weekday mornings. In 1970, the route south to Bollington and Macclesfield closed to all traffic, the majority of travellers between Macclesfield and the City of Manchester preferring to use the faster West Coast Main Line route via Stockport instead. Rose Hill itself avoided a similar fate due to its high levels of commuter traffic toward Manchester Piccadilly.〔Marshall, J (1981) ''Forgotten Railways North-West England'', David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd, Newton Abbot. ISBN 0-7153-8003-6, p.30〕 Subsequent diesel services to and from Manchester Piccadilly originally alternated between the two available routes - one train running via Bredbury, followed by a train travelling via Hyde and Guide Bridge. In the late 1990s, the services to the two railway stations in Marple were streamlined, with most Rose Hill services now running via Hyde and most Marple services running via the more direct Bredbury line. From 13 December 2010, Rose Hill Marple gained an extra second service per hour off-peak due to the diversion of a service which previously turned back at Marple railway station. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rose Hill Marple railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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