Langley Mill railway station explained

Langley Mill
Symbol Location:gb
Symbol:rail
Borough:Langley Mill, Borough of Amber Valley
Country:England
Grid Name:Grid reference
Manager:East Midlands Railway
Platforms:2
Code:LGM
Classification:DfT category F1
Years:6 September 1847
Events:Opened as Langley Mill for Heanor
Years1:1 November 1876
Events1:Renamed Langley Mill and Eastwood
Years2:11 September 1933
Events2:Renamed Langley Mill and Eastwood for Heanor
Years3:2 January 1967
Events3:Closed
Years4:12 May 1986
Events4:Reopened as Langley Mill[1]
Footnotes:Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Langley Mill railway station (formerly known as Langley Mill for Heanor and Langley Mill and Eastwood) on the Erewash Valley Line serves the large village of Langley Mill and the towns of Heanor in Derbyshire and Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is 19km (12miles) north of Nottingham.

The station lies between Nottingham and Sheffield and is managed by East Midlands Railway.

Services

Northern Trains run an hourly service between Nottingham and via that stops at Langley Mill. This service started from the December 2008 timetable change.

East Midlands Railway operate a few services per day from Langley Mill southbound to Nottingham and beyond (usually Norwich) and northbound to Sheffield (usually continuing to Liverpool Lime Street).

Buses that serve Langley Mill are Rainbow 1, 33, 34 and others that can be found on the Trent Barton website.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has two offset platforms (linked by underpass), with platform 1 (for Chesterfield and Sheffield) the more southerly of the pair. There are no permanent buildings other than standard waiting shelters; there is no ticket machine available, so all tickets must be purchased prior to travel or on the train. Digital CIS displays, automatic announcements, timetable poster boards and customer help points on each side provide train running information. Step-free access is only available to platform 1 (via ramp, platform 2 is reachable only by stairs).[2]

History

See also: Langley Mill railway station (Erewash Valley line). The station was opened on the Erewash Valley Line by the Midland Railway in 1847 and known as Langley Mill for Heanor. However, in 1876, the GNR built Eastwood and Langley Mill on its branch from the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension at Awsworth Junction. The Midland station then became Langley Mill and Eastwood.

In 1895, the Midland built a line from here through Heanor to Ripley with an adjacent station of its own. This was not profitable and closed in May 1926.

It was closed to passenger traffic on 2 January 1967 as a result of the Beeching Axe (along with, and all the other remaining local stations on the same route),[3] but was subsequently reopened by British Rail in May 1986.[4] The former station (which was demolished after closure) had platforms opposite each other and was located on the site of the present platform 2. A new northbound platform had to be provided when the station was rebuilt, as the former site north of Station Road had been redeveloped. This is located close to where the old Ripley branch line platform once stood.[5]

Stationmasters

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/LGM/details.html# Langley Mill station facilities
  3. http://www.westhousesdepot.co.uk/stations.html Stations of the Erewash
  4. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/the-railway-station-that-refused-to-die-a7655896.html "The railway station that refused to die"
  5. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4079201 "Langley Mill railway station, Derbyshire (2013)
  6. . 1914 . 1859-1866 . Midland Railway Miscellaneous Depts . 141 . 12 May 2021.
  7. . 1871 . 1871-1879 Coaching . Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts . 471 . 12 May 2021.
  8. . 1881 . 1881-1898 Coaching . Midland Railway Operating, Traffic and Coaching Depts . 573 . 12 May 2021.
  9. News: . Death of Mr. S. Eaton. Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press . England . 8 September 1933 . 12 May 2021 . British Newspaper Archive . subscription .
  10. News: . New Stationmaster at Langley Mill . West Bridgford Advertiser . England . 16 October 1933 . 12 May 2021 . British Newspaper Archive . subscription .