Langwith railway station

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Langwith
General information
Location Langwith, Bolsover
England
Grid reference SK 526 698
Platforms2
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original company Midland Railway
Pre-groupingMidland Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
British Railways
Key dates
1 June 1875Opened
12 October 1964Closed [1]

Langwith is a former railway station in the Langwith Maltings area of Langwith in north eastern Derbyshire, England.

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Context

The station was built by the Midland Railway on its Nottingham Midland to Worksop line. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders. [2] The line and station were closed to passengers in 1964. The line was reopened in 1998 as the Robin Hood Line but the station was not reopened, the community being better served by a wholly new structure half a mile to the North, called Langwith-Whaley Thorns. In Henry Priestley's wonderfully evocative 1962 photograph of Langwith station [3] the colliery winding gear visible in the distance marks the approximate site of Langwith-Whaley Thorns station.

History

The station was opened with some bunting, flags and ceremony on 1 June 1875. It initially provided a service of six trains each way, three between Mansfield and Worksop and three between Mansfield and Sheffield Victoria. [4]

The line was and remains double track. The station had two opposite platforms and a stone station building [5] [6] very similar to those at Shirebrook West, [7] [8] [9] Elmton & Creswell [10] [11] [12] and Whitwell. The original Whitwell station has been dismantled and meticulously rebuilt at the Midland Railway Centre, the new Robin Hood line Whitwell station is a new building on the original site.

The last day of service was 10 October 1964, closure having been delayed for a week to serve the annual Nottingham Goose Fair. The station was demolished in 1978.

Notes

  1. Butt 1995, p. 138.
  2. "Notes by the Way" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. Garratt & Priestley 1996, p. 11.
  4. Hurst 1987, p. 44.
  5. Lund 1999, p. 32.
  6. Kaye 1988, p. 54.
  7. Goode 1983, p. 15.
  8. Lund 1997, p. 29.
  9. Anderson & Cupit 2000, p. 73.
  10. Hurst 1987, pp. 52–56.
  11. Garratt & Priestley 1996, p. 45.
  12. Lund 1997, p. 37.

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References

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Shirebrook West
Line and station open
  Midland Railway
Nottingham to Worksop Line
  Elmton and Creswell
Line and station open

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See also

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