Shirebrook railway station

Shirebrook National Rail

Shirebrook railway station in 2011.
Location
Place Shirebrook
Local authority Bolsover
Coordinates 53°12′15″N 1°12′09″W / 53.2041°N 1.2026°W / 53.2041; -1.2026Coordinates: 53°12′15″N 1°12′09″W / 53.2041°N 1.2026°W / 53.2041; -1.2026
Grid reference SK533677
Operations
Station code SHB
Managed by East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05  54,061
2005/06 Increase 57,567
2006/07 Decrease 57,417
2007/08 Decrease 54,073
2008/09 Increase 55,536
2009/10 Increase 64,762
2010/11 Decrease 61,042
2011/12 Increase 66,668
2012/13 Increase 71,774
2013/14 Decrease 63,635
History
Original company Midland Railway
Pre-grouping Midland Railway
Post-grouping London, Midland and Scottish Railway
1 June 1875 (1875-06-01) Opened as Shirebrook
18 June 1951 Renamed Shirebrook West
12 October 1964 Closed
1998 Reopened as Shirebrook
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shirebrook from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Shirebrook railway station serves the town of Shirebrook in Derbyshire, England. The station is on the Robin Hood Line, 21½ miles (35 km) north of Nottingham towards Worksop.

Services

Monday to Saturdays, there is generally an hourly service from Shirebrook eastbound towards Worksop and southbound to Mansfield and Nottingham.

On Sundays from 22 May 2011, the Robin Hood line train service runs between Nottingham and Mansfield Woodhouse only. Bus service RH1 replaces Robin Hood line trains between Worksop and Mansfield Woodhouse. It calls at Whitwell, Creswell, Langwith Whaley Thorns and Shirebrook stations and connects with selected trains at Mansfield Woodhouse.

Shirebrook West Station in 1957

History

The line and the station were built by the Midland Railway.

In 1951 the station was renamed "Shirebrook West", despite being on the eastern edge of the village. This was to "avoid confusion" with three other stations :

Shirebrook South closed to regular passenger services in 1931, though excursions continued to call at least until 1957. Shirebrook North closed to regular passenger services in 1955, though excursions continued to call until 1964. Shirebrook Colliery Sidings closed by June 1954.[2]

Branch lines

Two branch lines are plainly visible veering off north of the bridge at the north end of Shirebrook station.

The double tracks branching off eastwards (i.e. to the right as viewed from the station) to the side of the signalbox joined the LD&ECR's one-time main line to Lincoln, next stop Warsop. The branch only ever carried a regular passenger service for a few years in Edwardian times. It did, however, carry Summer holiday trains such as the Summer Saturdays Radford to Skegness in at least 1963.[3] The branch's main purpose was always freight traffic, with coal being overwhelmingly dominant.

In 2013 the line gives access to UK Coal's Thoresby Colliery and to the High Marnham Test Track.

There is some hope of reopening the line as a branch off the Robin Hood Line and reopening Warsop, Edwinstowe and Ollerton stations, providing an hourly service to Mansfield and Nottingham.[4]

The single line veering off westwards (to the left as viewed from the station) was removed in the 1940s and relaid in 1974. It used to have a matching second track coming down on the other side of the main lines, behind the signalbox as viewed from the station, but that was not reinstated.

The reinstated single line serves W H Davis's wagon works in Langwith Junction. From 1900 to 1939 the pair of lines enabled trains to run from Sheffield through Spinkhill, Clowne South, Creswell's old "Top Station" (Creswell and Welbeck), Shirebrook North, Shirebrook West, and Mansfield Woodhouse to Mansfield.

Finally, up to 1974 the next station north from Shirebrook on what is now the Robin Hood Line was not Langwith-Whaley Thorns but simply "Langwith". That station was at Langwith Maltings. In the 1964-1998 closure period it was demolished. As a new station would have to be built at Langwith when the Robin Hood Line was to be reopened it was decided that the community would be better served by a station at Nether Langwith/Whaley Thorns than at the old station site.

References

Notes

  1. Cupit & Taylor 1984.
  2. Butt 1995, p. 211.
  3. 1963 Shirebrook-Warsop Timetable: via psul4all
  4. Lambourne, Helen (22 July 2009). "New bid to extend rail link to Ollerton". Worksop Today. Retrieved 21 February 2010.

Sources

Other reading

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shirebrook railway station.
Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
East Midlands Trains
Disused railways
Mansfield Woodhouse
Line and station open
  LD&ECR & MR
Mansfield-Sheffield Service
  Shirebrook North
Line and station closed
Mansfield Woodhouse
Line and station open
  LD&ECR & MR
Early Mansfield-Sheffield Service
  Warsop
Line and station closed
Mansfield Woodhouse
Line and station open
  MR
1875-1964 Nottingham-Worksop Service
  Langwith
Line open, station closed
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