Creswell railway station

This article is about the current railway station in Creswell, Derbyshire. For the closed railway station in Staffordshire, see Cresswell railway station.
Creswell National Rail
Location
Place Creswell
Local authority Bolsover
Grid reference SK523744
Operations
Station code CWD
Managed by East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05  41,808
2005/06 Increase 42,240
2006/07 Increase 42,692
2007/08 Decrease 38,869
2008/09 Increase 40,284
2009/10 Increase 46,638
2010/11 Increase 47,722
2011/12 Decrease 44,860
2012/13 Decrease 41,702
2013/14 Decrease 34,508
History
Key dates Opened May 1998 (May 1998)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Creswell from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Creswell railway station serves the village Creswell in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line between Nottingham and Worksop. It is also the nearest station to the larger village of Clowne.

The line and the station was built by the Midland Railway. For many years it was known as Elmton and Creswell to prevent confusion with the nearby Creswell and Welbeck station opened by the LD&ECR in 1897[1] and closed at the outbreak of WW2.[2]

Services

Monday to Saturdays, there is generally an hourly service northbound towards Worksop and southbound to Mansfield and Nottingham. A Sunday service of four trains in each direction was introduced in December 2008, but since May 2011 the service was cut back to run between Nottingham-Mansfield Woodhouse only.[3]

Branch line

A branch line veered west immediately north of the station. Its remains are still plainly visible from the north end of the platforms and from Worksop trains. This was the Clowne Branch, which wound a very circuitous route through Clowne, Staveley, Barrow Hill and Whittington to Chesterfield. It closed to normal passenger traffic in 1954, though Summer holiday trains to Blackpool North continued until 1962.

It remained open to freight traffic until the 1980s when the combination of an underground fire and the need to replace tracks led to its closure. The trackbed is protected in case a use is found, such as for opencast traffic or for access to the Markham Enterprise Growth Zone at M1 Junction 29A.

Most of the track remains in place, but is heavily overgrown.

References

  1. Cupit & Taylor 1984, p. 39.
  2. Anderson & Cupit 2000, p. 52.
  3. GB eNRT May 2011 & December 2015 Editions, Table 55 (Network Rail)

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Coordinates: 53°15′50″N 1°12′59″W / 53.26389°N 1.21639°W / 53.26389; -1.21639


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