Langwith is a former
railway station in the Langwith Maltings area of
Langwith in north eastern
Derbyshire, England.
Context
The station was built by the
Midland Railway on its
Nottingham Midland to
Worksop line. The station was designed by the
Midland Railway company architect
John Holloway Sanders
John Holloway Sanders FRIBA (1825 – 16 October 1884) was an architect based in England and chief architect of the Midland Railway until 1884.
His date of appointment as Chief Architect to the Midland Railway is not known, but he is recorded as ...
.
The line and station were closed to passengers in 1964. The line was reopened in 1998 as the
Robin Hood Line but the station was not reopened, the community being better served by a wholly new structure half a mile to the North, called
Langwith-Whaley Thorns. In Henry Priestley's wonderfully evocative 1962 photograph of Langwith station the colliery winding gear visible in the distance marks the approximate site of Langwith-Whaley Thorns station.
History
The station was opened with some bunting, flags and ceremony on 1 June 1875. It initially provided a service of six trains each way, three between
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...
and
Worksop and three between
Mansfield
Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...
and
Sheffield Victoria.
The line was and remains double track. The station had two opposite platforms and a stone station building very similar to those at
Shirebrook West,
Elmton & Creswell and
Whitwell. The original Whitwell station has been dismantled and meticulously rebuilt at the
Midland Railway Centre
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, the new Robin Hood line Whitwell station is a new building on the original site.
The last day of service was 10 October 1964, closure having been delayed for a week to serve the annual
Nottingham Goose Fair. The station was demolished in 1978.
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See also
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Langwith-Whaley Thorns railway station
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Shirebrook North railway station
External links
The station on an Edwardian 6" OS map, via ''National Library of Scotland''
* ttp://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/ELRs/_mileages/P/PSE.txt The station, line and mileages, via ''Railway Mileages''
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Disused railway stations in Derbyshire
Former Midland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1875
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
Beeching closures in England
John Holloway Sanders railway stations