- Arkwright Town railway station
Infobox UK disused station
name = Arkwright Town
caption =
original =Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway
postgroup =London and North Eastern Railway
pregroup =Great Central Railway
locale =Chesterfield
borough =Derbyshire
latitude =
longitude =
gridref =
years = 8 March 1897
events = Station opens
years1 = 3 December 1951
events1 = Station closes
platforms = ?Arkwright Town railway station is a former railway station in
Arkwright Town ,Derbyshire .History
Opened by the
Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway in March 1897, and joining theGreat Central Railway it became part of theLondon and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on toBritish Railways onnationalisation in 1948, only to be closed in 1951.It was originally to have been called Duckmanton, but the Staveley Company objected. [Cupit,T., Taylor, W., (1984 2nd.Ed.) "The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway," Trowbridge: The Oakwood Press] Just to the east of the station was the connecting curve installed in 1907 by the
Great Central Railway . A mile further east was Markham Junction for the, now closed, Bolsover and Markham Number 1 collieries.The next station was Bolsover after crossing the
River Doe Lea by a viaduct which, though strongly built, suffered from coal mining subsidence, as did many of the lines in the area.
Former ServicesReferences
ources
*Butt-Stations
*Jowett-Nationalised
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