Langley Mill railway station (formerly known as Langley Mill for Heanor and Langley Mill and Eastwood) on the Erewash Valley Line serves the village of

Langley Mill Langley Mill is a large village in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. History Originally named ''Long Lea'', the village of Langley Mill was a major employer throughout the mid 1900s with many companies including The Flour Mi ...

and the towns of

Heanor Heanor (/ˈhiːnə/) is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. It lies north-east of Derby and forms, with the adjacent village of Loscoe, the civil parish and town council-administered area of He ...

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 ...

and

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, England. The station is north of

Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...

. The station lies between

and

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...

and is managed by East Midlands Railway.

Services

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run an hourly service between

and via that stops at Langley Mill. This service started from the December 2008 timetable change. East Midlands Railway operate a few services per day from Langley Mill southbound to Nottingham and beyond (usually

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) and northbound to Sheffield (usually continuing to

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). Buses that serve Langley Mill are Rainbow 1, 33, 34 and others that can be found on the

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website.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has two offset platforms (linked by underpass), with platform 1 (for Chesterfield and Sheffield) the more southerly of the pair. There are no permanent buildings other than standard waiting shelters; there is no ticket machine available, so all tickets must be purchased prior to travel or on the train. Digital CIS displays, automatic announcements, timetable poster boards and customer help points on each side provide train running information. Step-free access is only available to platform 1 (via ramp, platform 2 is reachable only by stairs).

History

The station was opened on the Erewash Valley Line by 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 ama ...

in 1847 and known as ''Langley Mill for Heanor.'' However, in 1876, the GNR built Eastwood and Langley Mill on its branch from the

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 ...

at Awsworth Junction. The Midland station then became Langley Mill and Eastwood. In 1895, the Midland built a line from here through Heanor to Ripley with an adjacent station of its own. This was not profitable and closed in May 1926. It was closed to passenger traffic on 2 January 1967 as a result of the Beeching Axe (along with , and all the other remaining local stations on the same route), but was subsequently reopened by British Rail in May 1986. The former station (which was demolished after closure) had platforms opposite each other and was located on the site of the present platform 2. A new northbound platform had to be provided when the station was rebuilt, as the former site north of Station Road had been redeveloped. This is located close to where the old Ripley branch line platform once stood.

Stationmasters

*Richard Eaton until 1861 *J.C. Hayes from 1861 (formerly station master at Borrowash) *James Hay ca. 1866 *Edward Eagle 1868 - 1898 (formerly station master at Stapleford and Sandiacre) *Richard Withnall Wain 1898 - 1911 *Samuel Eaton 1911 - 1926 *William Tunn 1926 - 1937 (formerly station master at Alfreton)

References

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