Spinkhill railway station

Spinkhill railway station is a disused railway station in Spinkhill, Derbyshire, England.

Spinkhill
General information
Location	Spinkhill, North East Derbyshire England
Platforms	2 (reduced to 1 in later years)
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	LD&ECR
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	LNER British Railways
Key dates
1 October 1898[1]	Opened
11 September 1939[2]	scheduled services end
after 1958	Closed completely

v t e Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway
Legend
Chesterfield (Market Place) Boythorpe Viaduct over MR Brampton Branch and Boythorpe Railway   Horns Bridge over Midland Main Line GCR Chesterfield Loop River Rother Duckmanton Tunnel Great Central Main Line Arkwright Town Arkwright Town Jct (1907) River Doe Lea Doe Lea Viaduct over MR Doe Lea Branch Bolsover South Bolsover Tunnel Scarcliffe Summit MML to St Pancras Sheffield Midland Attercliffe Road (MR) Rotherham Masborough West Tinsley (SDR) Catcliffe (SDR) Rotherham Masborough Treeton (MR) Woodhouse Mill (MR) Beighton (GCR) Beighton Junction Killamarsh West (MR) Beighton (GCR) Upperthorpe and Killamarsh Spinkhill Spinkhill Tunnel Clowne South Summit Markland Grips Viaduct Creswell and Welbeck Shirebrook North (Originally Langwith Junction) Langwith Junction shed Shirebrook South GNR to Nottingham Victoria (1901) Shirebrook West MR (now Robin Hood Line) Nottingham Midland to Worksop Warsop Clipstone Colliery Sidings Mansfield Railway to Nottingham Victoria (from 1917) Edwinstowe Ollerton Boughton Tuxford Central Tuxford Works Tuxford shed Dukeries Junction GNR (now ECML) Kings Cross to Retford Fledborough Fledborough Viaduct over River Trent Clifton-on-Trent Doddington and Harby Skellingthorpe GN&GEJR to Saxilby Pyewipe Junction Lincoln to Peterborough

LD&ECR and Sheffield District Railway

History

The station was built by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway on their Beighton Branch, within sight of the northern portal of Spinkhill Tunnel. It opened in 1898 and closed to regular timetabled passenger traffic in 1939, though start and end of term special trains for pupils at the nearby Mount St Mary's College^[3] continued for some years thereafter.^[4]

The line through the station was closed as a through route on 9 January 1967^[5] but trains continued to serve the nearby Westthorpe Colliery until it closed in 1984. This involved using the former running lines and the sidings behind the station house.

Modern times

The humpback bridge over the trackbed between the station and the tunnel survives, as does the station house, which is now a private residence. The tunnel can still be discerned but is now overgrown. The track through the station site and tunnel was lifted after the closure of the line when the colliery closed.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Upperthorpe and Killamarsh Line and station closed		Great Central Railway Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway		Clowne South Line and station closed

References

Notes

1. Dow 1965, p. 167.
2. Cupit & Taylor 1984, p. 42.
3. MSM College: via their website
4. Booth 2013, p. 45.
5. Little 1995, p. 67.

Sources

• Booth, Chris (2013). The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway A pictorial view of the "Dukeries Route" and branches. Blurb. ISBN 978-1-78155-660-3. 06715029.
• Cupit, J.; Taylor, W. (1984) [1966]. The Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway. Oakwood Library of Railway History (2nd ed.). Headington: Oakwood Press. ISBN 978-0-85361-302-2. OL19.
• Dow, George (1965). Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900–1922. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-0263-0. OCLC 500447049.
• Little, Lawson (1995). Langwith Junction, the Life and Times of a Railway Village. Newark-upon-Trent: Vesper Publications. ISBN 978-0-9526171-0-5.

External links

• The station and line on various navigable historic maps National Library of Scotland
• The station and line on various navigable historic maps Rail Map Online
• Spinkhill railway station on navigable 1955 O.S. map npe Maps
• The station in its last years RCTS
• The station in its last years RCTS
• The station and signalbox flickr
• The station, bridge and tunnel flickr
• Ticket to Spink Hill (original spelling) Old Miner

53.3072°N 1.3159°W / 53.3072; -1.3159