The station was opened in 1894 on the
Midland Railway's Dore and Chinley line, now known as the
Hope Valley Line. It was reduced to unstaffed halt status in 1969 and has lost its station buildings. The station was renamed from
Hope Village to
Hope on 6 May 1974. The summer 1961 timetable showed it as
Hope (for Castleton & Bradwell). At that time,
North Western and Pashley provided connecting buses to those villages to meet most trains.
Station masters On 3 September 1925, the new station master, Mr Thompson, had only been in the post a few days when three people were killed and 14 injured in a collision at the station. The 3:00pm Manchester to Sheffield express collided with a stationary ballast train at Hope station. The driver and fireman of the passenger train, George Wolfe and Joseph Richard Henderson, were killed along with a platelayer, James Herbert Chapman. The verdict at the inquest, held by Colonel Alan Mount of the Ministry of Transport, was that the signalman on duty, Alexander Adams, was responsible for the accident which occurred through negligence due to a temporary lapse of memory, but there was no criminal responsibility. The signalman had been distracted by a requirement to take a telegraph message for the signalman at Bamford who had been in the post for four years, but was not trained in telegraphy. • John Ross 1896 - 1925 • Mr. Thompson from 1925 (formerly station master at Manton near Willington) • F.K. Upton from 1953 (formerly station master at Wingfield). ==Facilities==