Belper railway station
Belper 
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Belper station, 2005
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| Location | |
| Place | Belper |
| Local authority | Borough of Amber Valley |
| Grid reference | SK348475 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | BLP |
| Managed by | East Midlands Trains |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| DfT category | F1 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 0.174 million |
| 2012/13 |
0.177 million |
| 2013/14 |
0.193 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.210 million |
| – Interchange | 706 |
| 2015/16 |
0.225 million |
| – Interchange |
979 |
| History | |
| Key dates | Opened 1840 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Belper from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Belper railway station is a railway station serving the town of Belper in Derbyshire, England. The station is located on the Midland Main Line from Derby to Leeds.
Access to the station can be gained via a narrow alleyway from King Street beside the Poundland store, from the Field Lane car park and across the rear of the supermarket, from Bridge Street via Wellington Court and via alleyways from Field Lane (by the railway bridge) and Albert Street.
The station is served by one operator, East Midlands Trains, with local services from Newark Castle via Nottingham and Derby to Matlock along the Derwent Valley Line. Services are approximately hourly Monday to Saturday, two-hourly on Sundays, and are formed using diesel multiple units of Classes 153, 156 or 158. A few early and late trains start/terminate at Nottingham or Derby rather than Newark Castle.
A single weekday return journey to/from Sheffield is also provided, departing Belper at 07:29 and returning at 18:06.
Interchange with services to many local and national destinations including Leicester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham and London can be made at Derby or Nottingham.
The line was surveyed by George Stephenson for the North Midland Railway Company, and opened in 1840. The Strutt family who had built cotton mills and had become the primary landowner, were great supporters of the line and had invested in it. They feared, however, that it would interfere with the water supply to the mill and affect both theirs and their employees' livelihood, so initially suggested in 1835 that the line should proceed by Holbrook.
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