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Whitwell railway station

Coordinates: 53°16′48″N 1°12′02″W / 53.28000°N 1.20056°W / 53.28000; -1.20056
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Whitwell
General information
LocationBolsover
Managed byEast Midlands Trains
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeWWL
History
OpenedMay 1998

Whitwell railway station serves the village of Whitwell in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line 4¾ miles (7 km) south west of Worksop towards Nottingham.

History

The line and station were built by the Midland Railway. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.[1] They were opened for passenger traffic on 1 June 1875 and closed in October 1964, though freight traffic continued. The station[2][3] was dismantled and rebuilt, brick by brick, at the heritage railway at Butterley in 1981.

The line reopened in stages through the 1990s, with the final, northernmost, section from Mansfield Woodhouse through Whitwell to Worksop reopening in 1998. The modern Whitwell station is on the original site, but a wholly new structure.

When the line opened in 1875 two railway companies provided services through Whitwell:

Over time the direct Mansfield-Whitwell-Sheffield service was diverted to Worksop. From 1 October 1905 the MR took over all services and ran them all to Worksop, where passengers for Sheffield could change trains.[4] This core service continued until closure in 1964.

The station

The station is located on the edge of the village, beside the quarry. It consists of two platforms, with the Nottingham bound one having to be reached via a foot-bridge.

Services

On Monday to Saturdays, there is generally an hourly service northbound towards Worksop and southbound to Mansfield and Nottingham. From December 2008, four trains between Nottingham and Worksop on Sundays were introduced. Prior to this, there was no Sunday service. The Sunday service ran until May 2011 when it was withdrawn north of Mansfield Woodhouse.[5]

References

Notes

  1. ^ "Notes by the Way". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Lund 1997, p. 29.
  3. ^ Kaye 1988, p. 54.
  4. ^ Hurst 1987, p. 46.
  5. ^ GB eNRT May 2011 & December 2015 Editions, Table 55 (Network Rail)

Sources

  • Hurst, Geoffrey (1987). The Midland Railway Around Nottinghamshire, Volume 1. Worksop: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-947796-05-3. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Kaye, A.R. (1988). North Midland and Peak District Railways in the Steam Age, Volume 2. Chesterfield: Lowlander Publications. ISBN 0 946930 09 0. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Lund, Brian (1997) [1995]. Derbyshire Railway Stations on old picture postcards. Keyworth, Nottingham: Reflections of a Bygone Age. ISBN 0 946245 86 X. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
Preceding station   National Rail National Rail   Following station
East Midlands Trains
Disused railways
Elmton & Creswell
Line and station open
  MSLR (later GCR)
1875-1905 Worksop-Sheffield Service
  Shireoaks
Line closed, station open

53°16′48″N 1°12′02″W / 53.28000°N 1.20056°W / 53.28000; -1.20056