Part of the site, including the trackbed of the tracks outside the station, were occupied by the Buxton Steam Centre of the Peak Rail heritage railway in the 1970s; it relaid track with ambitions to reopen the line towards Millers Dale.

This plan failed; they moved their entire operations and stock to the section between Matlock Riverside and Darley Dale, where the railway was reopened in 1992.

[6] In June 2019, Peak Rail announced that they hoped to recommence work on the Buxton site during the summer of 2019.

[7] Support of the local MP was gained;[8]however, the builder of a new development was causing difficulties with access.

A small section of stonework that supported the original end wall and the platform that Peak Rail built remain extant.