Borrowash railway station

Borrowash
Borrowash station in 1961
Location
Place	Borrowash
Area	Derbyshire
Operations
Original company	Midland Counties Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	LMS British Railways
Platforms	2
History
4 June 1839	First opened
1 May 1871	New station opened
1 May 1898	renamed Borrowash for Ockbrook
1 April 1904	renamed Borrowash
14 February 1966	Closed
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Borrowash railway station was a station at Borrowash in Derbyshire.

It was built in 1839 for the Midland Counties Railway, which shortly joined the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway to form the Midland Railway. This line is now part of the Midland Main Line between Long Eaton and Derby

The fourth station from Nottingham, it was at first only a temporary building in the cutting. Its first station master was a Mr. Portlock.

A new station was built in 1871, for a time known as Borrowash for Ockbrook, it closed to passengers in 1966 and was demolished in 1994.

The original station became a private house and survives today. The remains of a flight of steps to the former platform can still be made out.

Bibliography

• The Nottingham and Derby Railway Companion, (1839) Republished 1979 with Foreword by J.B.Radford, Derbyshire Record Society
• Higginson, M, (1989) The Midland Counties Railway: A Pictorial Survey, Derby: Midland Railway Trust.

External links

• Borrowash railway station at Wikimapia.
• "Picture the Past" (DMAG001929) Borrowash Station c1905.
• "Picture the Past" (DMAG001929) Borrowash Station c1910.
• "Picture the Past" (DMAG001928) Borrowash Station c1910.
• "Picture the Past" (DCER001189) Borrowash Station c1940.