Crosshill and Codnor railway station

Former railway station in Derbyshire, England

Crosshill and Codnor
General information
Location	Crosshill and Codnor, Amber Valley England
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
2 June 1890	Station opens
1 January 1917	closed
3 May 1920	reopened
4 May 1926	Station closes

Crosshill and Codnor railway station was a railway station which served the villages of Crosshill and Codnor in Derbyshire, England It was opened in 1890 by the Midland Railway on its branch between Langley Mill on the Erewash Valley Line and Ripley

History

The line came into being as competition for the GNR's branch. It was completed as far as Heanor by 1890, but took another five years to reach Langley Mill .

The station was built at line level next an overbridge carrying the Ripley to Heanor road. It was reached by a short driveway and a flight of wooden steps. There was only one platform. There were no goods facilities. The station was located on Station Lane just down from St James' Church.

Initially there were four trains each way between Heanor and Ripley and Butterley, with five on Saturday, but no Sunday service. When the line opened to Langley Mill this increased to nine each way.

Having been built for colliery traffic and passengers were an incidental, so only a shuttle was considered necessary. However, some trains ran between Nottingham and Ambergate or Chesterfield. One particularly complex service ran from Nottingham through Basford and Kimberley to Ilkeston Town, then via Langley Mill to Ripley and Butterley to Chesterfield.

Services ended during the First World War, but the line reopened in 1920. In the Grouping of all lines into four main companies in 1923 the station became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway . From 1914 the line had been in competition with the Ripley Rattlers a tramcar service opened by the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company. To reduce costs a Sentinel Steam Railcar was introduced in 1925, but the line finally closed to passengers with the General Strike the following year.

By 1928 rails had been lifted to the south of the station and at the end of December 1929 the decision was taken to remove all track between Ripley and Heanor. The station buildings were used for various purposes until 1972 when they were demolished. The road had been straightened and the bridge filled in during 1955.

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Heanor Line closed, station closed		Midland Railway Ripley to Erewash Valley Branch		Ripley Line closed, station closed

References

Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
The Railway Clearing House Handbook of Railway Stations 1904. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1970 . p. 146. ISBN 0-7153-5120-6.
Anderson, P.H., (1985 2nd ed) Forgotten Railways Vol 2: The East Midlands, Newton Abbot: David and Charles
Huson, S., (2009) Derbyshire in the age of steam, Newbury: Countryside Books

v t e Closed railway stations in Derbyshire
Ashbourne line	Higher Buxton Hartington Alsop en le Dale Tissington Thorpe Cloud Ashbourne Clifton (Mayfield) Norbury and Ellaston
Cromford and High Peak Railway	Shallcross Ladmanlow Hindlow Dowlow Halt Hurdlow Parsley Hay Hopton Top Wharf Steeplehouse Cromford (C&HPR)
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midland Jcn Rly	Buxton (Midland) Peak Forest Millers Dale Monsal Dale Longstone Great Longstone for Ashford Hassop Bakewell Rowsley
Sheffield & Midland C'ttee	Birch Vale Hayfield
Woodhead line	Crowden Woodhead
Ashover Light Railway	Ashover Butts Salter Lane Fallgate Milltown Dale Bank Woolley Hurst Lane Stretton Clay Lane Springfield (Derbyshire) Holmgate Chesterfield Road Claycross and Egstow
North Midland Railway	Eckington and Renishaw Barrow Hill Whittington Clay Cross Stretton Wingfield Derby Nottingham Road
Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension	Egginton Junction Etwall Mickleover Derby Friargate Breadsall West Hallam Ilkeston North Heanor (GNR) Marlpool
Ripley and Heanor branch lines	Ripley Denby Kilburn Coxbench Little Eaton Crosshill and Codnor Heanor (MR) Langley Mill (Branch)
Melbourne line	Sinfin North Sinfin Central Chellaston and Swarkestone Melbourne
Castle Donington line	Weston on Trent Castle Donington and Shardlow
Midland Counties Railway	Borrowash Draycott and Breaston Sawley Long Eaton (MCR)
Erewash Valley line	Doe Hill Westhouses and Blackwell Pye Bridge Codnor Park and Ironville Shipley Gate Ilkeston Town Ilkeston Junction and Cossall Trowell Stanton Gate Stapleford and Sandiacre Long Eaton (1847–1863) Long Eaton (1863–1967) Trent
Pinxton branch line	Eastwood and Langley Mill
Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway	Chesterfield Market Place Arkwright Town Bolsover South Scarcliffe Shirebrook North Upperthorpe and Killamarsh Spinkhill Clowne South Creswell and Welbeck
GCR Main Line and Chesterfield loop	Chesterfield Central Sheepbridge and Brimington Staveley Works Grassmoor Staveley Central Killamarsh Central Renishaw Central Heath Pilsley Tibshelf Town
Clowne and Doe Lea branches	Staveley Town Clowne and Barlborough Bolsover Castle Palterton and Sutton Glapwell Rowthorn and Hardwick
Other	Buxworth Chapel-en-le-Frith Central Egginton Fairfield Halt Gresley Ramsline Halt Hazelwood Pinxton and Selston Sheepbridge Swadlincote Tibshelf & Newton Whiteborough Woodville (Derbyshire) Unstone

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