- Egginton Junction railway station
Egginton Junction railway station is a former railway station in
Egginton ,Derbyshire .It was opened by the
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension in1878 , jointly with theNorth Staffordshire Railway .It was arranged in angle of the junction, with separate pairs of platforms for each company.
It was provided with substantial brick buildings; a two-storey station master's house and the usual single storey offices on the main GNR platform in the vee of the junction, with small timber-built waiting rooms on the two outer subsidiary platforms.
Regular passenger traffic finished in 1939, although it saw excursions until 1959, and it closed in 1962. [Higginson, M., (1989) "The Friargate Line:Derby and the Great Northern Railway," Derby: Golden Pingle Publishing]
The line from Friargate remained open for some years, being used as a test track by the
British Rail Research Division . The station area was leased by a caravan dealer who later moved on. By 1974 the main station was derelict and would have been pulled down had not a building company bought it in 1978 and renovated it for use as offices. The NSR side of the station has disappeared.References
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