Middlewood Higher

The railway stations at Middlewood provided an interchange between the Stockport to Buxton line of the LNWR and the Macclesfield to Marple joint line of the Great Central and North Staffordshire Railways. There was no road access and passengers not changing routes had to use public footpaths to reach High Lane or Higher Poynton. The Higher station on the joint line closed in 1960 whilst the Lower station remains open to this day. The nearest bridge in the background once carried the Norbury Colliery Railway which had an exchange siding on the right side just beyond the overbridge crossing the LNWR line.