Eckington and Renishaw railway station

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Eckington and Renishaw
Location Eckington, District of North East Derbyshire
England
Grid reference SK 442 786
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Midland Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
11 May 1840Station opened as "Eckington"
13 September 1874New station
10 April 1886Renamed Eckington and Renishaw
1 October 1951Closed [1]

Eckington and Renishaw railway station is a former railway station between Eckington and Renishaw in Derbyshire, England.

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See also

Three stations have at some time included "Eckington" in their names:

History

The station was opened by the North Midland Railway on their "Old Road" between Chesterfield and Rotherham Masborough.

The original station was of an ornate Italianate design by Francis Thompson and was replaced by a new one fourteen chains further north in 1874.

It was renamed by the Midland Railway as Eckington and Renishaw in 1886 since it was near to the Renishaw Iron Company's works and there was another "Eckington" station on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway which the Midland had acquired.

The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway) subsequently opened a station on 1 June 1892 within sight of the Midland's "Eckington and Renishaw" and called their station "Eckington and Renishaw". The ex-Great Central station was renamed Renishaw Central by British Railways on 25 September 1950.

The street level booking office was built on a bridge over the line with covered stairways leading down to the two platforms. [2] [3]

The station closed completely in 1951. The line is now part of the current Midland Main Line. It is used predominantly for freight, with a handful of passenger trains going the "long way round" from Chesterfield to Sheffield via the Old Road and Darnall largely to retain staff route knowledge in case of diversions. [4]

Passenger services

In 1922 passenger services calling at Eckington and Renishaw were at their most intensive, with trains serving three destinations via three overlapping routes:

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References

Notes

  1. Butt 1995, p. 89.
  2. Pixton 2001, pp. 22–23.
  3. Eckington and Renishaw station: via picturethepast
  4. "Old Road passenger traffic in 2013: via psul4all". Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
  5. Bradshaw 1985, p. 660.

Sources

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Killamarsh West
Line open, station closed
  Midland Railway
North Midland Railway "Old Road"
  Barrow Hill
Line open, station closed

Coordinates: 53°17′58.7″N1°20′15.9″W / 53.299639°N 1.337750°W / 53.299639; -1.337750