Melbourne railway station was a station at
Kings Newton
Kings Newton is a village in South Derbyshire. The population of the village is included in Melbourne, Derbyshire, Melbourne. The Holy well (pictured) was constructed around 1660, but has been refurbished at the end of the twentieth century.
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that served the adjacent town of
Melbourne, Derbyshire
Melbourne () is a market town and civil parish in South Derbyshire, England.
It was home to Thomas Cook, and has a street named after him. It is south of Derby and from the River Trent. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was ...
,
England
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.
History
It was opened in 1868 as the terminus of a
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 from .
In 1874 it became a through station as the line was extended to a junction on the
Leicester to Burton upon Trent Line
Leicester ( ) is a city, unitary authority and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. It is the largest settlement in the East Midlands.
The city lies on the River Soar and close to the eastern end of the Nati ...
near .
In 1930 passenger services were withdrawn and the Midland's successor, the
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally u ...
, was using the line only for freight services. During the Second World War the line became the
Melbourne Military Railway
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and Melbourne station became its headquarters. In 1945 the
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* War Department (United Kingdom)
* United States Department of War (1789–1947)
See also
* War Office, a former department of the British Government
* Ministry of defence
* Ministry of War
* Ministry of Defence
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returned the line and station to the LMS.
In 1980
British Rail
British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...
ways closed the line
[ and by the 1990s the track had been dismantled. The trackbed through the former station is now part of ]National Cycle Route 6
Route
Parts of the route are currently incomplete and some sections follow other routes.
London to Milton Keynes
The proposed route is to begin in central London, running from via Paddington railway station to the Grand Union Canal. The tow ...
.
Stationmasters
*Alexander McCall 1869 - 1875[ - 1891][ (formerly station master at Cumwhinton, afterwards station master at Stoke Works)
*John Henry Goodliffe 1898][ - 1929
*William Arthur Ofield 1929 - 1935 (formerly station master at Weston on Trent)
*J.W. Hardy 1936 - 1937 (afterwards station master at Shepshed)
*Andrew McLennan 1937 - 1938 (formerly station master at East Ham, afterwards station master at Staveley, Westmorland)
*A. Robinson 1938 - 1939]
Route
References
{{Closed stations Derbyshire
Disused railway stations in Derbyshire
Former Midland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1868
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1930
Melbourne, Derbyshire