Shirebrook railway station
Shirebrook  | |
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Shirebrook railway station in 2011. | |
| Location | |
| Place | Shirebrook |
| Local authority | Bolsover |
| Coordinates | 53°12′15″N 1°12′09″W / 53.2041°N 1.2026°WCoordinates: 53°12′15″N 1°12′09″W / 53.2041°N 1.2026°W |
| Grid reference | SK533677 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | SHB |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 61,042 |
| 2011/12 |
 66,668 |
| 2012/13 |
71,774 |
| 2013/14 |
63,635 |
| 2014/15 |
74,738 |
| History | |
| Original company | Midland Railway |
| Pre-grouping | Midland Railway |
| Post-grouping | London, Midland and Scottish Railway |
| 1 June 1875 | Opened as Shirebrook |
| 18 June 1951 | Renamed Shirebrook West |
| 12 October 1964 | Closed |
| 1998 | Reopened as Shirebrook |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shirebrook from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Shirebrook railway station serves the town of Shirebrook in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line, 21½ miles (35 km) north of Nottingham towards Worksop.
Services
Monday to Saturdays, there is generally an hourly service from Shirebrook eastbound towards Worksop and southbound to Mansfield and Nottingham.
On Sundays from 22 May 2011, the Robin Hood line train service runs between Nottingham and Mansfield Woodhouse only. Bus service RH1 replaces Robin Hood line trains between Worksop and Mansfield Woodhouse. It calls at Whitwell, Creswell, Langwith Whaley Thorns and Shirebrook stations and connects with selected trains at Mansfield Woodhouse.
History
The line and the station were built by the Midland Railway. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.[1]
In 1951, the station was renamed "Shirebrook West" despite being on the eastern edge of the village. This was to "avoid confusion" with three other stations:
- Shirebrook North built by the LD&ECR[2] in 1897. Despite its name, Shirebrook North was not actually in Shirebrook, but in nearby Langwith Junction.
- Shirebrook South built by the GNR on their line from Langwith Junction to Nottingham Victoria via Pleasley East. This line used to pass through the middle of Shirebrook by a massive embankment, cutting the village in two. Shirebrook South actually was in southern Shirebrook.
- Shirebrook Colliery (later renamed Shirebrook Colliery Sidings) for colliery workmens' trains only.
Shirebrook South closed to regular passenger services in 1931, but excursions continued to call at least until 1957. Shirebrook North closed to regular passenger services in 1955, but excursions continued to call until 1964. Shirebrook Colliery Sidings closed by June 1954.[3]
Branch lines
Two branch lines are plainly visible veering off north of the bridge at the north end of Shirebrook station.
The double tracks branching off eastwards (i.e. to the right as viewed from the station) to the side of the signalbox joined the LD&ECR's one-time main line to Lincoln, next stop Warsop. The branch only ever carried a regular passenger service for a few years in Edwardian times. It did, however, carry Summer holiday trains such as the Summer Saturdays Radford to Skegness in at least 1963.[4] The branch's main purpose was always freight traffic, with coal being overwhelmingly dominant.
In 2013 the line gives access to UK Coal's Thoresby Colliery and to the High Marnham Test Track.
There is some hope of reopening the line as a branch off the Robin Hood Line and reopening Warsop, Edwinstowe and Ollerton stations, providing an hourly service to Mansfield and Nottingham.[5]
The single line veering off westwards (to the left as viewed from the station) was removed in the 1940s and relaid in 1974. It used to have a matching second track coming down on the other side of the main lines, behind the signalbox as viewed from the station, but that was not reinstated.
The reinstated single line serves W H Davis's wagon works in Langwith Junction. From 1900 to 1939 the pair of lines enabled trains to run from Sheffield through Spinkhill, Clowne South, Creswell's old "Top Station" (Creswell and Welbeck), Shirebrook North, Shirebrook West, and Mansfield Woodhouse to Mansfield.
Finally, up to 1974 the next station north from Shirebrook on what is now the Robin Hood Line was not Langwith-Whaley Thorns but simply "Langwith". That station was at Langwith Maltings. In the 1964-1998 closure period it was demolished. As a new station would have to be built at Langwith when the Robin Hood Line was to be reopened it was decided that the community would be better served by a station at Nether Langwith/Whaley Thorns than at the old station site.
References
Notes
- ↑ "Notes by the Way.". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive. (subscription required (help)).
- ↑ Cupit & Taylor 1984.
- ↑ Butt 1995, p. 211.
- ↑ 1963 Shirebrook-Warsop Timetable: via psul4all
- ↑ Lambourne, Helen (22 July 2009). "New bid to extend rail link to Ollerton". Worksop Today. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
Sources
- 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 1-8526-0508-1. 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 0-85361-302-8. OL19.
- Hurst, Geoffrey (1987). The Midland Railway Around Nottinghamshire, Volume 1. Worksop: Milepost Publications. ISBN 0-947796-05-3.
Other reading
- Little, Lawson (1995). Langwith Junction, the Life and Times of a Railway Village. Newark: Vesper Publications. ISBN 0 9526171 0 2.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shirebrook railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Shirebrook railway station from National Rail
- The station on an Edwardian 6" OS map, via National Library of Scotland
- The station on a navigable 1947 OS Map, via npe Maps
- The station, line and mileages, via Railway Mileages
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
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| East Midlands Trains | ||||
| Disused railways | ||||
| Mansfield Woodhouse Line and station open |
LD&ECR & MR Mansfield-Sheffield Service |
Shirebrook North Line and station closed | ||
| Mansfield Woodhouse Line and station open |
LD&ECR & MR Early Mansfield-Sheffield Service |
Warsop Line and station closed | ||
| Mansfield Woodhouse Line and station open |
MR 1875-1964 Nottingham-Worksop Service |
Langwith Line open, station closed | ||