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The Sheffield and Midland Railway Companies' Committee was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1869 as a joint venture between the Midland Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. List of stations served
For stations from Ambergate see Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway
Millers Dale
Peak Forest
Chinley
Buxworth
New Mills
Strines
Marple
Romiley
Woodley
Hyde Central
Hyde Junction
Guide Bridge
Ashburys
1875: New route from Romiley
Bredbury
Brinnington
Reddish
Belle Vue
Manchester London Road (now Piccadilly)
also via L&YR to
Ardwick (new)
Manchester Victoria
1879: **The Widnes Loop
Widnes Central
Tanhouse Lane from 1890
1880: From Romiley to Heaton Mersey
Stockport Teviot Dale
1897: Direct line from Chinley
Disley Tunnel
Hazel Grove South
Cheadle Heath
Heaton Mersey
Didsbury
Withington and Albert Park
Chorlton cum Hardy
Manchester Central

For many years the Midland had been wishing to extend its line from London St. Pancras to Manchester, via Derby and the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway. It was thwarted by the London and North Western Railway which already had a line from Manchester to London, via Birmingham and had built a branch line to Buxton. Meanwhile, The Great Northern Railway was also averse to more competition in the area, and the MS&LR wished to expand southwards from its main line from Manchester, via Penistone, to Sheffield. The three joined forces in a series of tripartite agreements, which not being sanctioned by Parliament, were of doubtful legality. However James Allport, with some other Midland directors, met some members of the MS&L board while surveying the area. Allport had worked for the MS&LR and was familiar with the state of their finances. Since it was clear that the Midland was determined to enter Manchester, the MS&LR agreed to a joint scheme. The Midland would take its line from Millers Dale as far as New Mills, and the MS&LR would build its branch from Hyde on its main line to Hayfield via New Mills.

The earlier lines remain busy as the Hope Valley Line, as does that from New Mills through Disley Tunnel, where it branches to the old LNWR line from Buxton at Hazel Grove railway station into Stockport. However the stations from Hazel Grove to Manchester Central closed in 1967 and have practically disappeared, although the section of the railway between Didsbury and Manchester Central has reopened as a Metrolink line. There are hopes that this will extend further in the future through Heaton Mersey, and then leaving the alignment and heading into Stockport town centre. It became a corporate body, renamed the Great Central and Midland Joint Committee, on 22 July 1904. It was vested in the British Transport Commission under Transport Act 1947.