Idridgehay railway station is an intermediate station on the former

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 ...

branch line to the town of

Wirksworth Wirksworth is a market town in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. Its population of 5,038 in the 2011 census was estimated at 5,180 in 2019. Wirksworth contains the source of the River Ecclesbourne. The town was granted a mark ...

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 ...

. The line is off the

Midland Main Line The Midland Main Line is a major railway line in England from London to Nottingham and Sheffield in the Midlands. It comprises the lines from London's St Pancras station via Leicester, Derby/Nottingham and Chesterfield in the East Midlands. ...

at . The line has been reopened as the

Ecclesbourne Valley Railway The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway is a long heritage railway in Derbyshire. The headquarters of the railway centre on Wirksworth station, and services operate in both directions between Wirksworth and Duffield and from Wirksworth to Rave ...

and Idridgehay station was reopened on 8 March 2008.

History

Opened with other stations on the branch line to Wirksworth on 1 October 1867, it was designed by the

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 ...

. Idridgehay remained open until 16 June 1947, when the Wirksworth branch passenger service was withdrawn on a temporary basis in response to postwar fuel shortages. This was made permanent with effect from May 1949, when the line was removed from the summer timetable. Freight facilities remained rail-served until 2 March 1964, while the branch continued to be used for mineral traffic until December 1989. The station has been restored as an operational station on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in Derbyshire. The station building and nearby former station master's house have been sold off to private ownership in recent years, but the platform has been restored by volunteer members of the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway Association, culminating in its reopening to passenger-carrying trains in March 2008. The rebuilding of the adjacent level crossing with new gates and fencing was completed over the winter of 2007/8.

Stationmasters

*Benjamin Tomlinson 1867 - 1884 *Arthur G. Beeton 1884 - ca. 1908 *H. Peat ca. 1911 - ca. 1914 *G.W. Marple 1921 - 1936 (also station master at Shottle, afterwards station master at Wirksworth) *A.H. Webb 1936 - 1937 (also station master at Shottle) *A. Harrison 1937 - 1938 (also station master at Shottle, afterwards station master at Little Eaton) *W. Cooke 1938 - ???? (also station master at Shottle)

Route

References

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External links

Idridgehay website
Heritage railway stations in Derbyshire Former Midland Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1867 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1947 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2008 John Holloway Sanders railway stations

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