Borrowash railway station

Borrowash
Borrowash station in 1961
Location
Place	Borrowash
Area	Borough of Erewash
Operations
Original company	Midland Counties Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	LMS British Railways
Platforms	2
History
4 June 1839	First opened
1 May 1871	New station opened
1 May 1898	renamed Borrowash for Ockbrook
1 April 1904	renamed Borrowash
14 February 1966	Closed ^[1]
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Borrowash railway station was a station at Borrowash in Derbyshire.

It was built in 1839 for the Midland Counties Railway, which shortly joined the North Midland Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway to form the Midland Railway. This line is now part of the Midland Main Line between Long Eaton and Derby

The fourth station from Nottingham, it was at first only a temporary building in the cutting. Its first station master was a Mr. Portlock.

During the building of the line it was necessary to cut through an Anglo-Saxon barrow. It may have been the scene of a massacre for many skulls were found, of people aged from 18 to 60, cloven by Danish battleaxes, some being presented to Derby Museum.^[2]

A new station was built in 1871, for a time known as Borrowash for Ockbrook, it closed to passengers in 1966 and was demolished in 1994.

The original station became a private house and survives today. The remains of a flight of steps to the former platform can still be made out.

References

↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.,
↑ Heath, P. (ed) (2005) Melbourne 1820-1875: A Diary by Joseph Briggs, Melbourne Historical Research Group

Bibliography

The Nottingham and Derby Railway Companion, (1839) Republished 1979 with Foreword by J.B.Radford, Derbyshire Record Society
Higginson, M, (1989) The Midland Counties Railway: A Pictorial Survey, Derby: Midland Railway Trust.

External links

Borrowash railway station at Wikimapia.
"Picture the Past" (DMAG001929) Borrowash Station c1905.
"Picture the Past" (DMAG001929) Borrowash Station c1910.
"Picture the Past" (DMAG001928) Borrowash Station c1910.
"Picture the Past" (DCER001189) Borrowash Station c1940.

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 & 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

GNR 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 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

Coordinates: 52°54′14″N 1°23′04″W / 52.90400°N 1.38438°W / 52.90400; -1.38438

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