Egginton Junction railway station is a disused

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 ...

Egginton Egginton is a village and civil parish in the local government district of South Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 574. Location The village is located just off Ryknild Street, otherwise known as ...

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

History

The first station serving the village of Egginton was Egginton railway station, opened by the

North Staffordshire Railway The North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) was a British railway company formed in 1845 to promote a number of lines in the Staffordshire Potteries and surrounding areas in Staffordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire. The company was based i ...

(NSR) in 1849 with the opening on the line between and at a location approximately west of the later station. In January 1878 the Great Northern Railway (GNR) opened on its

GNR Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension The Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension of the Great Northern Railway was an English railway network built by the GNR to get access to coal resources in the area to the north and west of Nottingham. The Midland Railway had obstructed the GNR in ...

which made a junction with the NSR at Egginton. Initially there was no provision for GNR trains to stop at Egginton station so the two companies agreed to build a new station situated at the junction of the two lines. It was arranged in the angle of the junction, with platforms for the trains of both railways, and was opened on 1 July 1878. The new station was provided with substantial brick buildings: a two-storey station master's house and the usual single storey offices on the main platform in the vee of the junction, with small timber-built waiting room on the other platforms. Regular passenger traffic on the GNR line from Friargate finished in 1939, although it saw excursions until 1959. The station then closed in 1962. The Egginton Dairy creamery had a dedicated siding for the dispatch of milk trains around the country, until the mid-1960s.

Present day

The line from Friargate remained open for some years, being used as a test track by the

British Rail Research Division The British Rail Research Division was established in 1964 directly under the control of the British Railways Board, moving into purpose-built premises at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby. The intention was to improve railway reliability an ...

. The station area was leased by a caravan dealer who later moved on. By 1974 the main station was derelict and would have been pulled down had not a building company bought it in 1978 and renovated it for use as offices. The NSR side of the station has disappeared, apart from the

signal box In signal processing, a signal is a function that conveys information about a phenomenon. Any quantity that can vary over space or time can be used as a signal to share messages between observers. The ''IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing'' ...

which is still in use to supervise a

level crossing A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, Trail, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an Overpass#Railway, overpass ...

and to act as the 'fringe' to Derby PSB."Egginton Junction Signal Box"
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