Shirebrook North railway station
| Shirebrook North | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Place | Langwith Junction |
| Area | Bolsover |
| Coordinates | 53°12′55″N 1°12′48″W / 53.2154°N 1.2132°WCoordinates: 53°12′55″N 1°12′48″W / 53.2154°N 1.2132°W |
| Grid reference | SK 525 688 |
| Operations | |
| Original company | LD&ECR |
| Pre-grouping | Great Central Railway |
| Post-grouping |
LNER British Railways |
| Platforms | 4 |
| History | |
| 8 March 1897 | Opened as Langwith Junction |
| 2 June 1924 | renamed Shirebrook North |
| 17 September 1955 | closed for regular passenger traffic |
| 5 September 1964 | Summer excursions ended |
| 5 December 1964 | Closed completely |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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There have been four separate stations with "Shirebrook" in their names:
Shirebrook South, Shirebrook Colliery Sidings and Shirebrook North have been closed for many years. Shirebrook West closed in 1964 but reopened in 1998 as plain "Shirebrook". Shirebrook West was actually on the eastern edge of the village.
Shirebrook North railway station is a former railway station in Langwith Junction, Derbyshire, England.
The station was opened by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (later part of the GCR and subsequently the LNER) in March 1897 and was closed to regular passenger traffic by British Railways in September 1955.
The station was originally called Langwith Junction, and gave this name to the adjacent steam locomotive shed and the settlement that grew up around it, although the station was renamed as "Shirebrook North" on 2 June 1924, despite not being in Shirebrook. It was located on the LD&ECR line between Chesterfield Market Place and Lincoln Central. A branch ran north-west via Clowne to meet the Midland Railway near Beighton, on the outskirts of Sheffield, originally with the aim of running on the MS&LR - later Great Central - line into Sheffield Victoria. That company rejected the idea and, for a time, it led to a goods depot at Beighton, until it was linked with the Sheffield District Railway in 1900, giving access to The Midland Railway station at Sheffield. The line to Sheffield was occasionally called "The Sheffield Branch" but far more commonly The Beighton Branch.
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