Chesterfield railway station

• J. Cooper ca. 1844 - 1855
• John Rice 1855 - 1873
• Herbert Thomas Brown 1873 - 1907 ^[7]
• Samuel Morley 1907 ^[8] - 1910 (formerly station master at Sheepbridge, afterwards station master of Barrow Hill, Staveley Works, Staveley Town and Whittington)
• Edwin Richardson 1910 ^[9] - 1917 ^[10]
• E.H. Russell 1917 ^[11] - 1925 (formerly station master at Hellifield)
• William Dean 1925 - 1932 ^[12] (formerly station master at Barrow Hill)
• V.L. Ward 1932 - 1937 ^[13] (afterwards station master at Luton)
• William Jinks 1937–1942 (formerly station master at Chinley, afterwards station master at Beeston)
• Oliver Bates Nichols 1942 ^[14] - ca. 1950 (formerly station master at Wednesbury)

Station layout

Platform 1 facing south

Platform 1 facing north

Entrance to the station is on Crow Lane and includes a car park, taxi rank and bus stop. There is also a small car park on the other side of Crow Lane, which used to be free but now has a parking charge. The main entrance leads to the station concourse, which was built in the late 1990s; it includes a ticket office, a newsagent, a café and a waiting room. The concourse and the waiting room both have direct access to platform 1. There is also a waiting room on platform 2, which is accessed via a tunnel, using the stairs or lift in the concourse.

Platforms and destinations

The fast lines have two large side platforms, one for each direction; these platforms are covered for around half their length. The goods lines pass around the rear of platform 2 and there is a third large platform here that serves the northbound goods line.

Platform 1 is for northbound trains, calling at stations to Sheffield, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road, Liverpool Lime Street, Leeds, York, Doncaster, Newcastle, Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central.

Platform 2 is for southbound trains, calling at stations to London St Pancras International, Derby, Nottingham, Peterborough, Norwich, Cambridge, Leicester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff Central, Bournemouth, Southampton, Plymouth and Penzance.

Platform 3 is bi-directional and was opened in July 2010. As of May 2015, it is used by some services on the Leeds-Nottingham and Liverpool-Norwich routes at peak periods and during engineering works to reduce dependence on replacement bus services. ^[15] It is located on the down slow line, backing on to Platform 2, and is long enough to accommodate a 10 car train. Platform 3 had existed in a previous incarnation decades earlier, although it was a bay platform. ^{[16] [17]}

Up express in 1957

Down iron ore train north of Chesterfield (Midland) in 1957

Up coke train approaching Chesterfield Midland in 1957

The building of platform 3 was originally planned for 2007/8 to go with the East Midlands North Erewash resignalling scheme; it would have allowed passenger services to run on the bi-directional down slow line (goods line) from a new Chesterfield South Junction to Tapton Junction during perturbation or engineering work on the fast lines in this area. It would have also facilitated the turn back of trains at Chesterfield during the Bradway Tunnel blockade in 2008/9. ^[18] Work on the platform actually began in March 2010 and it was completed in July 2010, at a cost of £2.6 million. ^[19]

Services

A map of East Midlands Railway's InterCity and Connect services showing the current service pattern each hour

The 07:39 East Midlands Railway Master Cutler service runs to London via Derby and Leicester Mondays to Fridays providing a fast business train, arriving at London by 09:37. ^[20]

Typical weekday service pattern:

• Northern Trains run an hourly service between Nottingham and Leeds. This service started from the December 2008 timetable change. All Northern Rail trains call at Chesterfield. ^[21]
• East Midlands Railway run an hourly service between Liverpool and Norwich and half-hourly service between Sheffield and London, with one a day extending to Leeds. All East Midlands Railway services call at Chesterfield.
• CrossCountry operate a half-hourly service from Sheffield to Derby, which continue on to a variety of final destinations; Glasgow, Edinburgh, Plymouth, Reading, Southampton Central and Bristol. Only half of these stop at Chesterfield. ^[22] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, there was an initial plan in July 2020 to temporarily cut all CrossCountry services from stopping at Chesterfield, ^[23] but later revised to reinstate peak time services. ^[24] The December 2021 timetable sees 20 XC trains stop on each weekday, 23 on a Saturday and 18 on a Sunday.

Based on the above, there are typically 12 passenger trains per hour passing through the station on weekdays (6 in each direction), with 10 of those calling.

In popular culture

A pivotal scene in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Fourth Protocol took place at Chesterfield railway station, including on the station platform and ensuing action on nearby streets. ^[25]

Former stations

Chesterfield was once served by three railway stations; the others were Chesterfield Central station (closed in 1963) and Chesterfield Market Place station (closed in 1957).

High Speed 2

High Speed 2 trains were planned to serve Chesterfield. A branch off the eastern section of the HS2 line south of Chesterfield will route via the M1 running parallel to HS2, allowing trains to continue to and through Chesterfield to Sheffield Midland station was in the original plan. On 17 July 2017, the government confirmed a stop at Chesterfield after approval of the M18/Eastern Route. ^[26] However, an alteration to the HS2 plan in November 2021, said that HS2 will no longer go via Chesterfield, Sheffield and Leeds.

Bibliography

• Butt, R V J (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens. ISBN   978-1-85260-508-7.
• Catford, Nick (17 May 2017). "Chesterfield Central". Disused Stations. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021.

References

1. "The Sheffield and Chesterfield District Railway. The New stations" . Sheffield Daily Telegraph. British Newspaper Archive. 13 April 1869. Retrieved 12 July 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.
2. Butt 1995, p. 59.
3. "Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 map, 1898".
4. Catford 2017.
5. "Department for Transport announces winner of East Midlands franchise". Department for Transport. 22 June 2007. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007.
6. "Franchise ban for Stagecoach: Abellio wins East Midlands | Railnews | Today's news for Tomorrow's railway".
7. "Chesterfield Midland Stationmaster Retires" . Nottingham Journal. England. 18 December 1907. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
8. "New Midland Stationmasters" . Sheffield Daily Telegraph. England. 31 December 1907. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
9. "Chesterfields' New Stationmaster" . Derbyshire Courier. England. 18 June 1910. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
10. "Death of Popular Stationmaster" . Derbyshire Courier. England. 26 May 1917. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
11. "Chesterfield's New Station-Master" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 7 July 1917. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
12. "Former Ketton Stationmaster Retires" . Grantham Journal. England. 27 August 1932. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
13. "Chesterfield Staff's Tribute to Mr. V.L. Ward" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 30 April 1937. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
14. "New Stationmaster" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 18 September 1942. Retrieved 6 February 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
15. "Network Rail". Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2010.
16. "Dad's Day Out - 22/6/55". photobydjnorton.com.
17. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 January 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
18. "Route 19 Midland Main Line and East Midlands" (PDF). Network Rail. March 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2007.
19. "Fewer Rail Replacement Buses..." Network Rail. 13 July 2010. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021.
20. "Route1TableDec08" (PDF). East Midlands Trains. 14 December 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 January 2009. Retrieved 10 January 2009.
21. GB National Rail Timetable 2016 Edition, Table 34 (Network Rail)
22. GB National Rail Timetable May 2016 Edition, Table 51 (Network Rail)
23. "Anger as Chesterfield loses key train service amid coronavirus timetable changes". derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/people/anger-chesterfield-loses-key-train-service-amid-coronavirus-timetable-changes-2899755.
24. "Train company to restore key peak-time service to Chesterfield after U-turn". derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/people/train-company-restore-key-peak-time-service-chesterfield-after-u-turn-2903730.
25. Forsyth, Frederick (1985). The Fourth Protocol (PDF). Bantam Books. pp. 203–204. ISBN   978-0-553-25113-5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 January 2017.
26. "BREAKING NEWS: HS2 route through Derbyshire is confirmed". derbyshiretimes.co.uk.

External links

• Train times and station information for Chesterfield railway station from National Rail
• East Midlands Trains

Chesterfield
Chesterfield railway station entrance
General information
Location	Chesterfield, Chesterfield England
Grid reference	SK388714
Managed by	East Midlands Railway
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	CHD
Classification	DfT category C1
History
Original company	North Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
11 May 1840 (1840-05-11)	Original station opened
2 May 1870	Resited
25 September 1950	Renamed Chesterfield St Mary's
18 June 1951	Renamed Chesterfield Midland
7 September 1964	Renamed Chesterfield
Passengers
2018/19	1.945 million
Interchange	0.248 million

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Derby		CrossCountry Reading-Newcastle Peak Hours only		Sheffield
		CrossCountry Cross Country Route
Alfreton		East Midlands Railway Liverpool-Norwich		Sheffield
				Dronfield Limited Service
Derby		East Midlands Railway Midland Main Line		Sheffield
Belper Limited Service
Alfreton		Northern Trains Nottingham-Leeds		Dronfield
	Future services
Dronfield		Northern Connect Bradford Interchange - Nottingham		Alfreton
East Midlands Hub		TBA High Speed 2 via Sheffield to Leeds Line		Sheffield Midland
	Historical railways
Clay Cross Line open, station closed		Midland Railway Midland Main Line		Sheepbridge Line open, station closed
Clay Cross Line open, station closed		Midland Railway Midland Main Line		Whittington Line open, station closed

53°14′17.6″N1°25′11″W / 53.238222°N 1.41972°W / 53.238222; -1.41972