Place Pye Hill Grid reference SK443527 Original company Great Northern Railway | Area Ashfield Pre-grouping Great Northern Railway | |
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway 24 March 1877 Station opened as Pye Hill Similar Scrooby railway station, Kimberley West railway st, Upper Broughton railway st, Kirklington and Edingley, Kimberley East railway st | ||
Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station was a railway station on the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension on the branch between Kimberley and Pinxton. It served the villages of Pye Hill and Somercotes.
The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway on 24 March 1877, and was originally named Pye Hill; it was renamed Pye Hill and Somercotes on 8 January 1906, and closed on 7 January 1963. The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.
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