Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station was a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

on the

Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly saw that seizing control of territory was key to development, and it acquired, or took le ...

on its Derbyshire Extension on the branch between

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and

Pinxton Pinxton is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire on the eastern boundary of Nottinghamshire, England, just south of the Pinxton Interchange at Junction 28 of the M1 motorway where the A38 road meets the M1. Pinxton is part of the Bolsover ...

.Higginson, M., (1989) ''The Friargate Line:Derby and the Great Northern Railway,'' Derby: Golden Pingle Publishing It served the villages of Pye Hill and

Somercotes Somercotes is a village and civil parish in the district of Amber Valley in the English county of Derbyshire, close to the border with Nottinghamshire. It is a former mining village and was once surrounded by more than five pits. The village has ...

. The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway on 24 March 1877, and was originally named ''Pye Hill''; it was renamed ''Pye Hill and Somercotes'' on 8 January 1906, and closed on 7 January 1963. The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song " Slow Train" by

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Pye Hill and Somercotes Station on navigable 1947 O.S. map
(right-hand station of the two shown) Disused railway stations in Nottinghamshire Former Great Northern Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1877 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1963 {{EastMidlands-railstation-stub

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