Friends of Glossop Station - Blog

Roger Gibson latest artist in Waiting Room Art Gallery

27/2/2026

WE ARE DELIGHTED to welcome back Roger Gibson as our current artist to the Waiting Room Art Gallery.
Roger was one of the first artists to display his work when we began offering community display space in the Waiting Room. Roger has eight paintings on display which feature abstracts and flowers His abstracts are are inspired by curves constructed from the Fibonacci series of numbers.
Roger can be contacted on 07113 66007
Anyone else artist, photographer interested in displaying their work at the station should contact John Kimpton on 07749176796 for further information and bookings, We thank Northern Trains for their ongoing support.

New buffer stop at Glossop Station

27/2/2026

Over the weekend of February 21st and 22nd Network Rail installed a new buffer stop at Glossop Station. It also involved relaying and reballasting a section of track.
The new buffer stop looks very smart and, of course, is designed to meet the safety standards of today.
It has drawn a lot of compliments from Northern rail staff and passengers!

Dark Peak Photos Exhibition Glossop Town Hall

19/2/2026

DARK PEAK PHOTOS are holding an exhibition of photos with talks and workshops at Glossop Town Hall Friday 20th, Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd February.
The photos are by a variety of exhibitors with some work featuring local landscapes. The event runs from 10am to 5pm every day. Some work can also be viewed in the Waiting Room at Glossop Station and in the display board to the right of the ticket machines. This is FOGS' first collaboration with the team at Dark Peak Photos and we wish them well. The exhibition is also a really good opportunity to visit the interior of the newly restored Town Hall!

Travel to Hope Valley and Sheffield directly from Glossop

18/2/2026

Due to the closure of Manchester Piccadilly station this week as a result of major infrastructure work taking place local train services are operating to different schedules. On the Glossop Line there is an hourly service to/ from Guide Bridge where connecting buses are available to/from Manchester Victoria.
One unexpected bonus of these changed services is that the train at 22 minutes past the hour from Glossop reverses at Guide Bridge and becomes the 51 minutes to the hour service via Hyde Central and the Hope Valley to Sheffield. This means that for the first time since 1970 it is possible to travel on a train from Glossop to Sheffield - and back! Northern understandably is not promoting this as a through service to avoid confusion but as two separate services ie Guide Bridge to Glossop/Hadfield and Guide Bridge to Sheffield.
These amended services will run on Thursday 19th, Friday 20th and Saturday 21st February ONLY.
Sunday services on the Glossop line this Sunday 22nd February are scheduled to be bus replacements to/from Manchester Victoria. Normal timetables are expected to resume next Monday 23rd February.
So, if you can, take advantage of the through trains to Sheffield via Hope Valley stations for the next three days. Note journey time overall is around 90 minutes including standing time at Guide Bridge.
Please be advised that further changes to services could still happen. We strongly advise checking train times carefully.
Northern contact 0800 200 6060
or National Rail Enquiries 03457 484950

BBC One Show filming

16/2/2026

WE ARE VERY EXCITED to report on a project that has been months in the planning. Pier Productions, working on behalf of BBC's THE ONE SHOW, last week completed filming of our Lowestoft evacuee friends.
The project involved extensive research with interviews taking place ahead of the filming of the five evacuees who were involved including two who had travelled up specially from Lowestoft to be involved.
The main interviewer was Martin Impey - seen here arriving at the station - well known as a writer and illustrator of children's books. As many of the evacuees are now in their early 90s great care was taken of them at the various locations. These included Glossop Station, a local café, a local Junior School and a house where two of the evacuees had once lived as a family. The company also filmed at locations around the town giving a flavour of that which the 600 children evacuated from Lowestoft experienced as they arrived in Glossop on June 2nd 1940.
We are delighted that our evacuees' amazing stories will be reaching a much wider audience once the feature is shown on The One Show.
A release date for transmission has yet to be confirmed which we will publicise once known.
More details about the historic Lowestoft evacuation can be found on our website's dedicated pages here or in the leaflet, jointly produced by FoGS and the Lowestoft Central project, and available at the station.

More verse from local schoolchildren on Trains and Travellers

8/2/2026

THE SECOND EDITION OF OUR SPECIAL POETRY PLATFORM has launched featuring a further selection of poems from the entries submitted by local children in response to a competition run by Glossop Bookfest in conjunction with FoGS.
Inspired by last year's Rail 200 celebration the entries from children aged between 7 - 11 years at schools in Glossop, Dinting, Hadfield and Padfield included a wide variety of poems.
Take a moment as you journey through the station to read this latest collection of the children's thoughts, ideas and emotions on travelling by train.
Our thanks again to all the wonderful young poets who entered their work together with the encouragement of their parents and teachers.

A Hairy Biker visits Britain's Favourite Stations

4/1/2026

CHECK OUT the first episode of a new Channel 4 commissioned programme - Britain’s Favourite Railway Stations - airing at 9.00 pm on More 4 this Thursday 8th January.
Fronted by Si King, of The Hairy Bikers, it features our friends at Lowestoft Station and interviews with some of the Glossop evacuees.
It also looks at the Lowestoft Central Project and was filmed during August in a programme which explore the extraordinary stations that take us beyond catching a train to the hidden worlds where heritage, technology and community converge.

Happy New Year!

31/12/2025

Christmas Wishes

24/12/2025

Trains and Travellers in Children's verse

14/12/2025

OUR LATEST POETRY PLATFORM has launched today with a another special to take us into the New Year,
The poems featured on the display were chosen from over 200 entries sent from local children in response to a competition run by Glossop Bookfest in conjunction with FoGS. The theme was inspired by the Rail 200 celebration.
The Children aged between 7 - 11 years were from schools in Glossop, Dinting, Hadfield and Padfield who subnitted a wide range of poems. Take a moment as you journey through the station to read their thoughts, ideas and emotions on travelling by train in verse.
Our thanks to all the wonderful young poets who entered their work and for the encouragement of parents, their teachers and schools.
A second selection of the children's poems from the competition entries will be published in mid-February,