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Glapwell railway station - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 53°11′26″N 1°18′9″W / 53.19056°N 1.30250°W

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Glapwell

General information
Location	Glapwell, Bolsover England
Coordinates	53°11′26″N 1°18′9″W / 53.19056°N 1.30250°W / 53.19056; -1.30250
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

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

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

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

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

(Lanc's, Derbyshire & East Coast Rly)

(LD&ECR)

Byron Bricks

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

^ ^a ^b ^c Hurst 1987, p. 77.
^ ^a ^b Butt 1995, p. 103.
^ Kay 1998, Sheet 12.
^ The service in 1890, no Glapwell Old Miner
^ Hurst 1987, p. 76.
^ Anderson & Cupit 2000, p. 42.
^ Kaye 1988, p. 27.
^ Hurst 1987, p. 80.
^ ^a ^b Anderson & Cupit 2000, p. 41.
^ Hurst 1987, p. 79.
^ DVD 2004.
^ 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.

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

v t e Closed railway stations in Derbyshire
Ashbourne line	Higher Buxton Hartington Alsop en le Dale Tissington Thorpe Cloud Ashbourne Clifton (Mayfield) Norbury and Ellaston
Cromford and High Peak Railway	Shallcross Ladmanlow Hindlow Dowlow Halt Hurdlow Parsley Hay Hopton Top Wharf Steeplehouse Cromford (C&HPR)
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Jcn Rly	Buxton (Midland) Peak Forest Millers Dale Monsal Dale Longstone Great Longstone for Ashford Hassop Bakewell Rowsley
Sheffield & Midland C'ttee	Birch Vale Hayfield
Woodhead line	Crowden Woodhead
Ashover Light Railway	Ashover Butts Salter Lane Fallgate Milltown Dale Bank Woolley Hurst Lane Stretton Clay Lane Springfield (Derbyshire) Holmgate Chesterfield Road Claycross and Egstow
North Midland Railway	Eckington and Renishaw Barrow Hill Whittington Clay Cross Stretton Wingfield Derby Nottingham Road
Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension	Egginton Junction Etwall Mickleover Derby Friargate Breadsall West Hallam Ilkeston North Heanor (GNR) Marlpool
Ripley and Heanor branch lines	Ripley Denby Kilburn Coxbench Little Eaton Crosshill and Codnor Heanor (MR) Langley Mill (Branch)
Melbourne line	Sinfin North Sinfin Central Chellaston and Swarkestone Melbourne
Castle Donington line	Weston on Trent Castle Donington and Shardlow
Midland Counties Railway	Borrowash Draycott and Breaston Sawley Long Eaton (MCR)
Erewash Valley line	Doe Hill Westhouses and Blackwell Pye Bridge Codnor Park and Ironville Shipley Gate Ilkeston Town Ilkeston Junction and Cossall Trowell Stanton Gate Stapleford and Sandiacre Long Eaton (1847–1863) Long Eaton (1863–1967) Trent
Pinxton branch line	Eastwood and Langley Mill
Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway	Chesterfield Market Place Arkwright Town Bolsover South Scarcliffe Shirebrook North Upperthorpe and Killamarsh Spinkhill Clowne South Creswell and Welbeck
GCR Main Line and Chesterfield loop	Chesterfield Central Sheepbridge and Brimington Staveley Works Grassmoor Staveley Central Killamarsh Central Renishaw Central Heath Pilsley Tibshelf Town
Clowne and Doe Lea branches	Staveley Town Clowne and Barlborough Bolsover Castle Palterton and Sutton Glapwell Rowthorn and Hardwick
Other	Buxworth Chapel-en-le-Frith Central Egginton Fairfield Halt Gresley Ramsline Halt Hazelwood Pinxton and Selston Sheepbridge Swadlincote Tibshelf & Newton Whiteborough Woodville (Derbyshire) Unstone

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