Place Langwith, Derbyshire Grid reference SK 526 698 1 June 1875 Opened Original company Midland Railway | Area Bolsover Post-grouping LMSR
British Railways 12 October 1964 Closed Platforms in use 2 | |
Similar Clowne and Barlborou, Barrow Hill railway station, Creswell and Welbeck r, Clowne South railway st, Staveley Central railway st | ||
Langwith is a former railway station in the Langwith Maltings area of Langwith in north eastern Derbyshire, England.
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The station was built by the Midland Railway on its Nottingham Midland to Worksop line. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders. The line and station were closed to passengers in 1964. The line was reopened in 1998 as the Robin Hood Line but the station was not reopened, the community being better served by a wholly new structure half a mile to the North, called Langwith-Whaley Thorns. In Henry Priestley's wonderfully evocative 1962 photograph of Langwith station the colliery winding gear visible in the distance marks the approximate site of Langwith-Whaley Thorns station.
History
The station was opened with some bunting, flags and ceremony on 1 June 1875. It initially provided a service of six trains each way, three between Mansfield and Worksop and three between Mansfield and Sheffield Victoria.
The line was and remains double track. The station had two opposite platforms and a stone station building very similar to those at Shirebrook West, Elmton & Creswell and Whitwell. The original Whitwell station has been dismantled and meticulously rebuilt at the Midland Railway Centre, the new Robin Hood line Whitwell station is a new building on the original site.
The last day of service was 10 October 1964, closure having been delayed for a week to serve the annual Nottingham Goose Fair. The station was demolished in 1978.