Pye Hill and Somercotes | |
Status: | Disused |
Borough: | Pye Hill, Ashfield |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 53.0696°N -1.3394°W |
Grid Name: | Grid reference |
Original: | Great Northern Railway |
Pregroup: | Great Northern Railway |
Postgroup: | London and North Eastern Railway |
Years: | 24 March 1877 |
Events: | Station opened as Pye Hill |
Years1: | 8 January 1906 |
Events1: | Renamed Pye Hill and Somercotes |
Years2: | 7 January 1963 |
Events2: | Station closed |
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.[1] 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.[2] The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.