Creswell and Welbeck railway station

Creswell and Welbeck
Location of the station (1983)
Location	Bolsover England
Grid reference	SK 518 739
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway British Railways
Key dates
1 June 1897	Opened as Cresswell
1 September 1897	renamed Creswell for Welbeck
10 September 1939	Closed to passengers [1]
4 April 1950	Signalbox abolished

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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

Creswell and Welbeck railway station used to serve the village of Creswell, in north eastern Derbyshire, England.

See also

Three stations have included a version of "Creswell" in their name:

• Creswell and Welbeck, which is the subject of this article,
• Creswell, formerly known as "Elmton & Creswell", which is on the same street as Creswell and Welbeck, and
• Cresswell in Staffordshire

History

The station was opened by the LD&ECR on its Beighton Branch on 1 June 1897. ^[2] At first it was named simply "Cresswell" then "Creswell for Welbeck" ^[3] and later "Creswell and Welbeck". Locally it was known as "Top Station" to distinguish it from "Bottom Station" which was the ex-Midland Railway Elmton and Creswell station further down Elmton Road. The August 1939 Bradshaw continued to list the station as "Cresswell and Welbeck." ^[4]

The station had wooden platforms and appears from one of the rare photographs of the site to have been built of wood. ^[5] The characteristic and striking LD&ECR awnings closely resemble the Sheffield District Railway stations at Catcliffe and West Tinsley. The equally characteristic station lamps match those visible at Arkwright Town, among others. ^[6]

From Langwith Junction the line ran northwards parallel to the Midland Railway's Nottingham Midland to Worksop line for about two miles, then veered north west to Creswell. Curiously, "Elmton and Creswell" station was nearer Welbeck than "Creswell and Welbeck" station which was in turn nearer Elmton than "Elmton and Creswell".

The station closed to passengers in September 1939, and goods some time thereafter. The station signalbox, which had a Railway Signalling Company 28 lever frame, was abolished on 4 April 1950. ^[7]

The line through the site was closed completely in 1967 when it was diverted further South and severed further North in connection with building the M1 motorway. All tracks have since been lifted and the station demolished, though the characteristic LD&ECR stationmaster's house still stands, as can be seen on the accompanying photograph.

The line then climbed at 1 in 100 to Clowne South.

Stationmasters

• Ephraim Russon 1897 - 1930 ^[8]
• Lewis Geradine 1930 - 1939 ^[9] (formerly station master at Navenby)

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Clowne South Line and station closed		Great Central Railway LD&ECR		Shirebrook North Line and station closed

References

Notes

1. Butt 1995.
2. Dow 1965, p. 161.
3. Cupit & Taylor 1984, opposite p23.
4. Booth 2013, p. 37.
5. Booth 2013, page 41, bottom right.
6. Little 2002, p. 34.
7. Booth 2013, p. 41.
8. "After 47 years. Creswell Station-Master Retiring" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 4 October 1930. Retrieved 9 January 2022– via British Newspaper Archive.
9. "Retirement of Creswell Railwayman" . Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. England. 6 October 1939. Retrieved 9 January 2022– via British Newspaper Archive.

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. (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.
• Cupit, J.; Taylor, W. (1984) [1966]. The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway. Oakwood Library of Railway History (2nd ed.). Headington: Oakwood Press. ISBN   978-0-85361-302-2. OL19.
• Dow, George (1965). Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900–1922. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN   978-0-7110-0263-0. OCLC   500447049.
• Little, Lawson (Autumn 2002). Bell, Brian (ed.). "Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway (Part II) A lineside look at Langwith Junction: (1) the 1940s". Forward. Holton le Clay: Brian Bell for the Great Central Railway Society. 133. ISSN   0141-4488.

External links

• Creswell stations on old OS map npemaps

   

Coordinates: 53°15′39″N1°13′30″W / 53.2607°N 1.2250°W / 53.2607; -1.2250