Glapwell railway station

Glapwell is a former railway station in Glapwell, Derbyshire, England.

Glapwell
General information
Location	Glapwell, Bolsover England
Coordinates	53°11′26″N 1°18′9″W
Grid reference	SK 466 662
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
1 September 1892[1] (or 22 August 1892[2])	Opened
28 July 1930[2]	Closed completely

Context

The station was built by the Midland Railway on the circuitous Barrow Hill to Pleasley West line^[3] known as the Doe Lea Branch, because it ran for much of its length along the valley of the River Doe Lea.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Palterton and Sutton Line and station closed		Midland Railway Doe Lea Branch		Rowthorn and Hardwick Line and station closed

v t e Midland Railway
Legend
Clowne and Doe Lea branches
Key open ex-Midland Railway Lines Clowne Branch Doe Lea Branch other closed Midland Railway Lines ex-London and North Eastern Railway Lines
Context
Great Central Main Line to Sheffield Victoria Midland Rly "Old Road" to Rotherham Masborough Robin Hood Line to Worksop Staveley Town Whitwell Staveley Central Seymour Junction Barrow Hill Clowne and Barlborough Whittington Creswell Junction Midland Main Line to Sheffield Creswell Chesterfield Midland Main Line to Derby Langwith Whaley Thorns Bolsover Castle Doe Lea Viaduct Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Palterton and Sutton Glapwell Langwith Rowthorn Tunnel Rowthorn and Hardwick Shirebrook Pleasley West to Teversall Manor Mansfield Woodhouse Mansfield Robin Hood Line to Nottingham (MR)
Detail
Lanc's, Derbyshire & East Coast Rly to Spinkhill Robin Hood Line to Worksop Barlborough Colliery Southgate Colliery Clowne and Barlborough Whitwell Clowne South Creswell Junction Great Central Main Line to Sheffield Victoria Elmton & Creswell Hartington Colliery Creswell and Welbeck to Barrow Hill Lanc's, Derbyshire & East Coast Rly to Shirebrook North Bell House Sidings Staveley Central Oxcroft Colliery Staveley Town Seymour Colliery Ireland Colliery Seymour Junction Markham Colliery/Vale Coalite Chemical Bolsover Colliery Bolsover Castle Doe Lea Viaduct (Lanc's, Derbyshire & East Coast Rly) Bolsover South (LD&ECR) to Shirebrook North Byron Bricks Palterton and Sutton Ramcroft Colliery Glapwell Colliery Great Northern Railway to Shirebrook North Glapwell Pleasley West Pleasley East Rowthorn Tunnel Pleasley Colliery Rowthorn and Hardwick Mansfield Woodhouse to Teversall Manor Mansfield Great Northern Railway to Nottingham Victoria Robin Hood Line to Nottingham (MR)

History

The line was opened without ceremony on 1 September 1890, but no station was built at Glapwell.^[4] Pressure from the residents of Bramley Vale led to one being built and opened on 1 September 1892 as "Glapwell".^[1] It initially provided a service of three trains each way between Mansfield and Chesterfield, taking about an hour from end to end.^[5]

The line was single track between Seymour Junction^[6][7] and Pleasley West. Accordingly, the station had a single platform and a typical MR country station building, very similar to Clowne and Barlborough and Bolsover Castle.^[8][9]

Normal passenger traffic along the Doe Lea Branch dwindled over the years and finally ceased on 28 July 1930.^[1] Glapwell Colliery was still going strong at this time. As its sidings left the passenger line to the North of the station and all coal went out northwards, the station was abandoned along with the track southwards through Rowthorn Tunnel to Pleasley Colliery West Junction a short distance South of Pleasley West. The station building was not destroyed and by the early 1970s was used by an evangelical Christian group.^[9]

The last steam train to use the line was an enthusiasts' special on 16 October 1965.^[10][11] This train also traversed the Clowne Branch.

When Glapwell Colliery closed in 1974 the line South of Bolsover Castle station became redundant, though it was not lifted until 1978.

The trackbed south from Bolsover Castle almost to Glapwell at the bottom of Rylah Hill between Palterton and M1 J29 is now a public bridleway known as The Stockley Trail.^[12]

References

1. Hurst 1987, p. 77.
2. Butt 1995, p. 103.
3. Kay 1998, Sheet 12.
4. The service in 1890, no Glapwell Old Miner
5. Hurst 1987, p. 76.
6. Anderson & Cupit 2000, p. 42.
7. Kaye 1988, p. 27.
8. Hurst 1987, p. 80.
9. Anderson & Cupit 2000, p. 41.
10. Hurst 1987, p. 79.
11. DVD 2004.
12. Stockley Trail: via Derbyshire County Council

Sources

• Anderson, Paul; Cupit, Jack (2000). An Illustrated History of Mansfield's Railways. Clophill: Irwell Press. ISBN 978-1-903266-15-1.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Hurst, Geoffrey (1987). The Midland Railway Around Nottinghamshire, Volume 1. Worksop: Milepost Publications. ISBN 978-0-947796-05-1.
• Midland Railway System Maps (The Distance Diagrams), volume 2 - Leeds to Leicester and branches; Derby to Manchester and branches; Cheshire Lines (1909-1923 ed.). Teignmouth: Peter Kay. 1998. ISBN 978-1-899890-17-0.
• Kaye, A.R. (1988). North Midland and Peak District Railways in the Steam Age, Volume 2. Chesterfield: Lowlander Publications. ISBN 978-0-946930-09-8.
• DVD (2004). East Midlands Steam. Bradford: Marsden Rail. Marsden Rail 26.
• Quick, Michael (2009) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5. OCLC 612226077.

Further reading

• Howard Anderson, P. (1973). Forgotten Railways: The East Midlands. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-6094-1.
• Kingscott, Geoffrey (2007). Lost Railways of Derbyshire. Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 978-1-84674-042-8.

External links

• Glapwell station on old O.S. Map npe Maps
• The station on overlain OS maps National Library of Scotland
• The station and line on overlain OS maps Rail Map Online
• The station, line and mileages Railway Codes
• The station's history Old Miner
• The station and village Richard's Bygone Times
• The station after closure eBay