Clipstone Colliery Sidings railway station was a station in
Clipstone
Clipstone in north Nottinghamshire is a small ex-coal mining village built on the site of an old army base and close to the site of a medieval royal palace. The population of the civil parish was 3,469 at the 2001 census, increasing to 4,665 ...
,
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...
.
While primarily a
goods station
A goods station (also known as a goods yard or goods depot) or freight station is, in the widest sense, a railway station where, either exclusively or predominantly, goods (or freight), such as merchandise, parcels, and manufactured items, are l ...
, there was an unadvertised halt used by workmen. It was on the former
Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway
The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (LD&ECR) was built to connect coalfields in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire with Warrington and a new port on the Lincolnshire coast. It was a huge undertaking, and the company was unable to raise ...
line and is listed in Butt as ''Clipstone Colliery Sidings.''
A large concentration of sidings around
Kings Clipstone and the worker's halt at
New Clipstone village both served the Clipstone, Mansfield, Thoresby, Ollerton, Welbeck and Rainworth collieries for several decades.
Clipstone Sidings signalbox was existent on 21 October 1950 and was near Clipstone West Junction, heading towards Welbeck Junction.
Clipstone East signalbox was existent in the 1960s on the 'main-line' between Welbeck Junction and Thoresby Junction.
The Midland Loaded Sidings of
Clipstone Colliery
Clipstone Colliery was a coal mine in the village of Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, part of the area known as The Dukeries. The colliery opened in 1922 and operated until 2003. It was built by the Bolsover Colliery Company, transferred to the Nati ...
were still in regular use on 23 June 1972
Both Clipstone West junction and Clipstone colliery Junction and closed on 14 July 1986.
The pit closed in April 2003.
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Clipstone Sidings signalbox, Clipstone West Junction and Welbeck Junction no longer exist
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Clipstone Siding on a navigable 1947 OS mapClipstone CollieryClipstone Sidings Signalbox
Disused railway goods stations in Great Britain
Disused railway stations in Nottinghamshire
Former Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway stations
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