Royston and Notton railway station was opened in 1841 by the

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, near the Yorkshire summit of the line, on the south side of Navvy Lane bridge. The original station was rebuilt, about a mile further south, in 1900 when the lines were quadrupled. Shortly after this, the

Midland Railway The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844. The Midland was one of the largest railway companies in Britain in the early 20th century, and the largest employer in Derby, where it had its headquarters. It am ...

built a branch from Royston Junction to the north of the station as part of its plans to reach

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and the north, avoiding

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. In the end, the

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gave it running powers and the branch only reached

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. It was a large station with four platforms and typical Midland Railway timber buildings although only 2 platforms were used regularly for passenger services. It closed in 1968. Royston_Locomotive_Depot_ex-Midland_1P_0-4-4T_geograph-2825228-by-Ben-Brooksbank

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Nearby was the Royston

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built in the early 1930s, code 20C, to provide motive power for trains from the large collieries of the area. Most of its allocation was Stanier and WD 2-8-0s plus the ubiquitous Fowler 4F's, but ex LNWR 0-8-0s and

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s were not unknown.Pixton, B., (2000) ''North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route,'' Runpast Publishing

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