Eastwood and Langley Mill railway station explained

Eastwood and Langley Mill
Status:Disused
Caption:Near the site of the station in 1998. Actual site is now the A610 junction.
Borough:Amber Valley
Country:England
Platforms:2
Original:Great Northern Railway
Pregroup:Great Northern Railway
Postgroup:London and North Eastern Railway
Years:1 August 1876
Events:Opened
Years1:7 January 1963
Events1:Closed[1]

Eastwood and Langley Mill railway station is a former railway station serving the town of Eastwood and the village of Langley Mill in Derbyshire, England. It was opened by the Great Northern Railway on its Derbyshire Extension in 1875–6.[2]

It lay on the branch from Awsworth Junction, where it crossed the Giltbrook Viaduct, on the way to Pinxton. At the time it was in Nottinghamshire, but since recent boundary changes it would now be in on the border of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. It closed in 1963 and was demolished by 1976, and the trackbed was used for the Eastwood Bypass.

Langley Mill and Eastwood was nearby on the Midland Railway Erewash Valley Line.

References

53.0188°N -1.3208°W

Notes and References

  1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. Higginson, M., (1989) The Friargate Line: Derby and the Great Northern Railway, Derby: Golden Pingle Publishing