Mickleover railway station

Mickleover
Station building in 2004.
Location
Place	Mickleover
Area	City of Derby
Operations
Original company	Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
1 April 1878^[1]	Opened
4 December 1939	Closed to passengers
3 February 1964^[2]	Goods facilities withdrawn
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Mickleover railway station was a railway station serving the village of Mickleover, Derbyshire, England (now part of the city of Derby). It was opened by the Great Northern Railway on its Derbyshire Extension in 1878.

History

From Derby Friargate the line climbed at 1 in 100 for two miles southwards. On the outskirts shortly after the present Derby ring road the line entered a deep cutting leading to Mickleover Tunnel. The summit of the climb lay at the other end and, being curved, it presented a particular challenge to train drivers.

The station was about a mile north of the village along Station Road. It was labelled Mickleover for Radbourne, since it was in that parish, albeit some two miles distant. Originally it was spelt "Radburn" and, for a while, "Radbourn".

It was provided with substantial brick buildings; a two-storey station master's house and the usual single storey offices on the platforms. Regular passenger traffic finished in 1939, although it saw excursions until 1959, until complete closure in 1964.

The line from Friargate remained open for some years, being used as a test track by the British Rail Research Division.

Preceding station	Disused railways			Following station
Derby Friargate		London Midland Region of British Railways (Derby) Friargate Line		Etwall

Present day

The main station building has been converted into two private dwellings.^[3]

References

↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 158.
↑ 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. 46. ISBN 0-905466-19-5.
↑ Higginson, M., (1989) The Friargate Line:Derby and the Great Northern Railway, Derby: Golden Pingle Publishing

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°55′09″N 1°32′40″W / 52.9192°N 1.5445°W / 52.9192; -1.5445

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