Egginton Junction railway station

Egginton Junction
Station buildings in 2004.
Location
Place	Egginton
Area	South Derbyshire
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway and North Staffordshire Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Platforms	4
History
1 July 1878^[1]	Opened
5 March 1962^[2]	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
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Egginton Junction railway station is a former railway station in Egginton, Derbyshire.

History

It was opened by the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension in 1878, jointly with the North Staffordshire Railway.

It was arranged in angle of the junction, with separate pairs of platforms for each company.

It was provided with substantial brick buildings; a two-storey station master's house and the usual single storey offices on the main GNR platform in the vee of the junction, with small timber-built waiting rooms on the two outer subsidiary platforms.

Regular passenger traffic on the GNR line from Friargate finished in 1939, although it saw excursions until 1959. The station then closed in 1962.^[3] The Egginton Dairy creamery had a dedicated siding for the dispatch of milk trains around the country, until the mid-1960s.

Preceding station	Historical railways	Following station
Tutbury Line and station open	North Staffordshire Railway Crewe to Derby Line	Terminus
Terminus	Midland Railway Crewe to Derby Line	Pear Tree and Normanton Line and station open
Preceding station	Disused railways	Following station
Etwall Line and station closed	Great Northern Railway GNR Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension	Rolleston-on-Dove Line and station closed

Present day

The line from Friargate remained open for some years, being used as a test track by the British Rail Research Division. The station area was leased by a caravan dealer who later moved on. By 1974 the main station was derelict and would have been pulled down had not a building company bought it in 1978 and renovated it for use as offices. The NSR side of the station has disappeared, apart from the signal box which is still in use to supervise a level crossing and to act as the 'fringe' to Derby PSB.^[4]

References

↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 90.
↑ Clinker, C.R. (October 1978). Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830-1977. Bristol: Avon-AngliA Publications & Services. p. 45. ISBN 0-905466-19-5.
↑ Higginson, M., (1989) The Friargate Line:Derby and the Great Northern Railway, Derby: Golden Pingle Publishing
↑ "Egginton Junction Signal Box"Allsop, N; Geograph.org; Retrieved 7 April 2016

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°51′47″N 1°37′00″W / 52.863°N 1.6167°W / 52.863; -1.6167

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