Clipstone railway station

Clipstone railway station
General information
Location	Clipstone, [1] Nottinghamshire [1] England
Platforms	N\A
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway [1]
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway British Railways [1]
1912 [1]	Opened to colliery workmen's trains
1914 [1]	Service suspended
1920 [1]	re-opened to colliery workmen's trains
1922 [1]	First coal trains
30 April 1993 [1]	Service suspended
24 January 1994 [1]	Officially closed to both freight traffic and colliery workers' trains
17 April 2003 [1]	Closed completely and at least partly demolished

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

Clipstone Colliery Sidings railway station was a station in Clipstone, Nottinghamshire. ^[1]

While primarily a goods station, there was an unadvertised halt used by workmen. It was on the former Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway line and is listed in Butt as Clipstone Colliery Sidings. ^{[2] [1]}

A large concentration of sidings around Kings Clipstone and the worker's halt at New Clipstone village both served the Clipstone, Mansfield, Thoresby, Ollerton, Welbeck and Rainworth collieries for several decades. ^{[3] [4] [1]}

Clipstone Sidings signalbox was existent on 21 October 1950 and was near Clipstone West Junction, heading towards Welbeck Junction. ^[5]

Clipstone East signalbox was existent in the 1960s on the 'main-line' between Welbeck Junction and Thoresby Junction. ^[6]

The Midland Loaded Sidings of Clipstone Colliery were still in regular use on 23 June 1972 ^[1]

Both Clipstone West junction and Clipstone colliery Junction and closed on 14 July 1986. ^[7]

The pit closed in April 2003. ^{[8] [9] [10] [11]}

Clipstone Sidings signalbox, Clipstone West Junction and Welbeck Junction no longer exist ^[5]

Former Services

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Warsop		British Railways LD&ECR		Edwinstowe
				Mansfield Central

References

1. "Rail Chronology : East of Mansfield".
2. Butt 1995.
3. "Clipstone Railway". www.derelictplaces.co.uk.
4. "Clipstone Railway". neolithicsea.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 February 2009.
5. "Clipstone Sidings". signalboxes.com.
6. "Clipstone East". signalboxes.com.
7. "Mansfield Concentration sidings". signalboxes.com.
8. "Save Clipstone Colliery headstocks - e-petitions". Archived from the original on 24 September 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
9. "New plan for Clipstone Headstocks - Mansfield and Ashfield Chad". www.chad.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2014.
10. Historic England. "Headstocks and Powerhouse at the site of the former Clipstone Colliery, Clipstone (1380235)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 30 January 2020.
11. "Clipstone Camp war memorial plans move a step nearer - Local - Mansfield and Ashfield Chad". www.chad.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013.

Further reading

• Anderson, Paul; Cupit, Jack (2000). An Illustrated History of Mansfield's Railways. Clophill: Irwell Press. ISBN   1-903266-15-7.
• Bradshaw, George (1985) [1922]. July 1922 Railway Guide. Newton Abbott: David & Charles.
• 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, Jack (February 1956). Allen, G. Freeman (ed.). "The end of Passenger Services on the Mansfield Railway". Trains Illustrated. Hampton Court, Surrey: Ian Allan Ltd. IX (2).
• Cupit, J.; Taylor, W. (1984) [1966]. The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway. Oakwood Library of Railway History (2nd ed.). Headington: Oakwood Press. ISBN   0-85361-302-8. OL19.
• DVD2 (2005). Diesels Along:-The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway. Chesterfield: Terminus Publications. DVD, stills and film with commentary, 60 mins.
• Ludlam, A.J. (March 2013). Kennedy, Rex (ed.). "The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway". Steam Days. Bournemouth: Redgauntlet 1993 Publications. 283. ISSN   0269-0020.

External links

• Clipstone Siding on a navigable 1947 OS map
• Clipstone Colliery
• Clipstone Sidings Signalbox

Coordinates: 53°09′15″N1°07′07″W / 53.15425°N 1.11858°W / 53.15425; -1.11858