Warsop | |
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Location | |
Area | Nottinghamshire |
Grid reference | SK 562 671 |
Operations | |
Original company | LD&ECR |
Pre-grouping | Great Central Railway |
Post-grouping |
LNER British Railways |
Platforms | 2 |
History | |
8 March 1897 | Opened |
19 September 1955 | Closed to regular traffic |
After August 1976 | 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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Warsop railway station is a former railway station in Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England.
The station was opened by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway in March 1897 and closed by British Railways in 1955. The station building made use of the LD&ECR's standard modular architecture.
After leaving Shirebrook North station, the line crossed the Midland Nottingham to Worksop line (now the Robin Hood Line and passed the LD&ECR Warsop yard near Warsop Junction. These yards are still in use, currently by EWS. To the north was a branch to Warsop Main Colliery with extensive marshalling yards, now closed.
Shortly after this, in the days when the line was built, the line ran into countryside, crossing Warsop Vale, and arrived at Warsop station. These were in the days before the deep mines appeared penetrating the limestone cap.
Between Warsop and Edwinstowe the line climbed from the valley of the River Meden, heading for that of the River Maun. This was the beginning of the area known as The Dukeries, heavily promoted in the railway's literature in the hope of attracting tourist trade.
It passed by Warsop Windmill, where the GCR were later to provide a branch to Welbeck Colliery before reaching Clipstone, where it had been planned to build a branch to Mansfield. Instead it had built a curve into the Midland Railway line mentioned above. Sidings, however, were provided for the Duke of Portland. Further on into the Maun valley the GCR did build a junction for Mansfield Central, initially facing Lincoln, but then converted to a triangular one. Latterly this extended only to a group of collieries, all now closed.