Bolsover South railway station

This article is about the former Great Central Railway station. For the former Midland Railway station, see Bolsover Castle railway station.

Bolsover South
General information
Location	Bolsover, Derbyshire England
Coordinates	53°13′30″N1°18′06″W / 53.2251°N 1.3018°W / 53.2251; -1.3018
Grid reference	SK 467 700
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	LD&ECR
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	LNER British Railways
Key dates
8 March 1897	Opened as Bolsover
25 September 1950	renamed Bolsover South
3 December 1951	Closed [1]

v t e Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway
Legend
Chesterfield (Market Place) Boythorpe Viaduct over MR Brampton Branch and Boythorpe Railway   Horns Bridge over Midland Main Line GCR Chesterfield Loop River Rother Duckmanton Tunnel Great Central Main Line Arkwright Town Arkwright Town Jct (1907) River Doe Lea Doe Lea Viaduct over MR Doe Lea Branch Bolsover South Bolsover Tunnel Scarcliffe Summit MML to St Pancras Sheffield Midland Attercliffe Road (MR) Rotherham Masborough West Tinsley (SDR) Catcliffe (SDR) Rotherham Masborough Treeton (MR) Woodhouse Mill (MR) Beighton (GCR) Beighton Junction Killamarsh West (MR) Beighton (GCR) Upperthorpe and Killamarsh Spinkhill Spinkhill Tunnel Clowne South Summit Markland Grips Viaduct Creswell and Welbeck Shirebrook North (Originally Langwith Junction) Langwith Junction shed Shirebrook South GNR to Nottingham Victoria (1901) Shirebrook West MR (now Robin Hood Line) Nottingham Midland to Worksop Warsop Clipstone Colliery Sidings Mansfield Railway to Nottingham Victoria (from 1917) Edwinstowe Ollerton Boughton Tuxford Central Tuxford Works Tuxford shed Dukeries Junction GNR (now ECML) Kings Cross to Retford Fledborough Fledborough Viaduct over River Trent Clifton-on-Trent Doddington and Harby Skellingthorpe GN&GEJR to Saxilby Pyewipe Junction Lincoln to Peterborough

LD&ECR and Sheffield District Railway

1950 Excursion Advert

Bolsover South is a former railway station in Carr Vale, Bolsover, Derbyshire, England.

History

The station was opened by the LD&ECR in March 1897 as plain "Bolsover". It was closed to all traffic by British Railways in December 1951, primarily due to the prohibitive cost of repairing and maintaining Bolsover Tunnel. ^[2] Track lifting started immediately after closure and was completed within weeks, though the station building survived as an increasingly vandalised eyesore for some years. The photograph opposite shows the characteristic Station Master's house in 1963, the station itself was behind the bush on the extreme right of the photo. Also behind the photo to the left was a railway-served jam factory. ^[3]

The station was built in Carr Vale and was one of only two places on the LD&ECR where a level crossing was necessary, ^[4] the other being Skellingthorpe. ^{[5] [6]} To the west was Doe Lea Viaduct and to the east was a 300-foot-high (91 m) limestone ridge through which it was necessary to drive the notorious Bolsover Tunnel. To the east of this was the next station at Scarcliffe.

The station architecture was in the company's characteristic modular style ^{[7] [8]} with much glazing ^[9] as were, for example, Arkwright Town, Edwinstowe and Ollerton.

1912 was a notable year for Bolsover South, with flash floods on 27 July ^{[10] [11]} and 26 August. ^{[12] [13]}

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Arkwright Town Line and station closed		Great Central Railway Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway		Scarcliffe Line and station closed

References

1. Butt 1995, p. 38.
2. Bolsover Tunnel via Forgotten Relics
3. Booth 2013, p. 22.
4. Bolsover South level crossing via Picture the Past
5. Cupit & Taylor 1984, p. 16.
6. Haigh 1994, p. 102.
7. DVD 2005, 31 to 32 minutes from the start.
8. Booth 2013, pp. 21–22.
9. anon. 2011, pp. 44–5.
10. Haigh 1985, p. 11.
11. Haigh 1994, p. 96.
12. Haigh 1994, p. 104.
13. Bolsover South & Carr Vale History via Old Miner Archived 16 June 2013 at archive.today

Sources

• Booth, Chris (2013). The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway A pictorial view of the "Dukeries Route" and branches. Blurb. 06715029.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC   60251199. OL   11956311M.
• Cupit, J.; Taylor, W. (1984) [1966]. The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway. Oakwood Library of Railway History (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-302-2. OL19.
• DVD (2005). The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway - Memories of a Lost Route. Chesterfield: Terminus Publications. DVD, stills with commentary, 60 mins.
• Haigh, Bernard (1985). Bolsover Remembered. Bernard Haigh. OCLC   504569461.
• Haigh, Bernard (1994). The Old Photographs Series: Around Bolsover. Chalford: Chalford Publishing Co. Ltd. ISBN   978-0-7524-0021-1.
• Hurst, Geoffrey (1987). The Midland Railway Around Nottinghamshire, Volume 1. Worksop: Milepost Publications. ISBN   978-0-947796-05-1.
• Kaye, A.R. (1988). North Midland and Peak District Railways in the Steam Age, Volume 2. Chesterfield: Lowlander Publications. ISBN   978-0-946930-09-8.
• Anonymous (March 2011). Gellatly, Bob (ed.). "Readers' forum". Forward. North Anston: Bob Gellatly for the Great Central Railway Society. 167. ISSN   0141-4488.

Further reading

• Dow, George (1965). Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900–1922. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN   978-0-7110-0263-0. OCLC   500447049.

External links

• The station on a post war O.S. map in npe Maps
• The station on a navigable Edwardian 6" OS map, with overlays in National Library of Scotland
• The station and line in Rail Maps Online
• The station and lots besides inYahoo
• Bolsover railway structures in Signalboxes
• The station on line CLN1 in Railway Codes