Bolsover South railway station

This article is about the former Great Central Railway station. For the former Midland Railway station, see Bolsover Castle railway station.
Bolsover South
Location
Area Bolsover
Grid reference SK 467 700
Operations
Original company LD&ECR
Pre-grouping Great Central Railway
Post-grouping LNER
British Railways
Platforms 2
History
8 March 1897 Opened as Bolsover
25 September 1950 renamed Bolsover South
3 December 1951 Closed[1]
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Bolsover South railway station is a former railway station in Carr Vale, Bolsover, Derbyshire, England.

History

The station was opened by the LD&ECR in March 1897 as plain "Bolsover". It was closed to all traffic by British Railways in December 1951, primarily due to the prohibitive cost of repairing and maintaining Bolsover Tunnel.[2] Track lifting started immediately after closure and was completed within weeks, though the station building survived as an increasingly vandalised eyesore for some years. The photograph opposite shows the characteristic Station Master's house in 1963, the station itself was behind the bush on the extreme right of the photo. Also behind the photo to the left was a railway-served jam factory.[3]

The station was built in Carr Vale and was one of only two places on the LD&ECR where a level crossing was necessary,[4] the other being Skellingthorpe.[5][6] To the west was Doe Lea Viaduct and to the east was a 300-foot-high (91 m) limestone ridge through which it was necessary to drive the notorious Bolsover Tunnel. To the east of this was the next station at Scarcliffe.

The station architecture was in the company's characteristic modular style[7][8] with lots of glazing[9] as were, for example, Arkwright Town, Edwinstowe and Ollerton.

1912 was a notable year for Bolsover South, with flash floods on 27 July[10][11] and 26 August.[12][13]

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Arkwright Town
Line and station closed		   Great Central Railway
Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway		   Scarcliffe
Line and station closed

See also

Bolsover South station is not to be confused with the ex-MR station latterly called Bolsover Castle[14][15] which was on the Midland Railway Doe Lea Branch about half a mile away at the bottom of Station Road, nearer to Bolsover Colliery

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Butt 1995, p. 38.
  2. ↑ Bolsover Tunnel via Forgotten Relics
  3. ↑ Booth 2013, p. 22.
  4. ↑ Bolsover South level crossing via Picture the Past
  5. ↑ Cupit & Taylor 1984, p. 16.
  6. ↑ Haigh 1994, p. 102.
  7. ↑ DVD 2005, 31 to 32 minutes from the start.
  8. ↑ Booth 2013, pp. 21-22.
  9. ↑ anon. 2011, pp. 44-5.
  10. ↑ Haigh 1985, p. 11.
  11. ↑ Haigh 1994, p. 96.
  12. ↑ Haigh 1994, p. 104.
  13. ↑ Bolsover South & Carr Vale History via Old Miner
  14. ↑ Hurst 1987, p. 79.
  15. ↑ Kaye 1988, p. 27.

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Coordinates: 53°13′29.9″N 1°18′2.6″W / 53.224972°N 1.300722°W / 53.224972; -1.300722

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