Talk:Edwinstowe railway station

Misplaced commentary

Moved from Edwinstowe railway station

 – Redrose64 (talk) 09:13, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

For some years the Wikipedia entries for Warsop and Edwinstowe railway station stated that "Clipstone railway station" lay between the two. This appeared to be supported by the map reproduced on the rear cover of the definitive work on the LD&ECR by Cupit and Taylor and elsewhere. That map does indeed show "Clipstone (Goods)" on the LD&ECR main line between the two stations. This facility was, however, never more than a small siding with a signalbox which primarily served as an intermediate box on the main line. In another work Cupit explicitly states that the siding was never more than just that - "Old Clipstone, like its new colliery namesake, has no station; a single siding serves the needs of the agricultural folks hereabouts.". No source suggests otherwise.

The confusion was compounded because, despite the above, Clipstone did have two stations of sorts, both to the east of what became New Clipstone, off the Mansfield Railway line, a good mile asw the crow flies and twice as far by rail from the siding on the LD&ECR main line:

• The first station is referred to in Butt as "Clipstone Camp". This was on the large World War I army camp situated on the site of what later became Clipstone Colliery and was for use by military personnel and people on army business. It was dimantled along with the camp after the end of hostilities. It was never a normal, civilian, timetabled station.
• The second station is referred to in Butt as "Clipstone Colliery Siding". He gives no opening date, but implies it was before 1923, as he associates it with the Great Central Railway and gives a closing date of "after August 1968." Clipstone Colliery was off the Mansfield Railway. The online database of lines by Engineers' Line References makes no reference to any such station under CCN or anywhere else. At most this station provided somewhere for colliery workmen's trains. No source shows that it ever carried an advertised public service.

I have moved the above from the article because discussions regarding the accuracy of Wikipedia articles and the validity of sources belong on talk pages, not on articles. Please see WP:NOR, WP:NPOV and WP:V. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:13, 13 August 2013 (UTC)