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Closed Stations Journey quiz
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Xenophon PCDGS
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Cudworth
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Wath North
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Is there not a station called Swinton Town....after Wath North ?
Yes - but it's not closed AFAIK. Possibly not quite on the original site but was reopened in 1990ish
Xenophon PCDGS
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The new station, as you state, was built, but this was constructed on the other side of the road bridge.
The premises of the Swinton Town station to which I made reference to are currently still in use as the offices of a manufacturing company, according to a telephone conversation that I have had with a reporter on a local newspaper in that area.
Yes - you're right.
I remember now having cause to ponder this station last time we were down this way.
I gather there have been three stations around here - the first was closed in 1899 when the second, Swinton Town, was built. Then that closed in 1968 along with others on the line, but a new one was built in 1991, but south of the bridge on the site of the original.
Rotherham Masborough
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You most certainly will. You have to remember that the North Midland Railway as such still had five further stations after Woodhouse Mill, before it reached the Chesterfield area. The area around Tapton Junction may well give a clue as to the direction.
On the North Midland Railway, the next station after Woodhouse Mill was....
Beighton.
Upperthorpe and Killamarsh, then the next stations of Spinkhill, then Clowne South, were stations on the Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway's north branch line from Sheffield to Chesterfield, but we still have some way to go before we reach the connectional point from the North Midland Railway to the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway.
I do so like to use the North Midland Railway, as it always provokes good postings of discussion.
But there wasn't actually a physical connectional point in Chesterfield, was there? You left the (North) Midland station and walked through the town to Market Place.
But if we are going that way the next station after Beighton is Killamarsh - later Killamarsh West
But if we are going that way the next station after Beighton is Killamarsh - later Killamarsh West
Xenophon PCDGS
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As said in the Lewis Carroll story by a character....Curioser and curiouser...
You seem to make the assumption that I was going to use the terminal station in Chesterfield as the link, but this is not the case. I thought by giving the name of Tapton Junction in a previous posting of explanation, as part of the linkage routes, I might have given the game away.
My hard-copy of the Victoria era map drafts I had made in the preparation of this quiz does give the letter "A" as the first letter of the name of the railway station that I show as the first station on the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway, once the final station on the North Midland Railway has been named, which my records shows as beginning with the letter "W".
Shall we see how we progress and find if my detailed planning has been far too obtuse for this quiz, so after that last posting of Killamarsh (West), I shall nominate...
Eckington and Renishaw
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Whittington
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Bolsover (South)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire,_Derbyshire_and_East_Coast_Railway
I'm confused - according to the above reference to Wikki [for what it's worth, of course], there was a link from the LD&EC northwards from Langwith Junction, which was intended to join the M S & L, but instead joined the Midland at Beighton. That was why I said in a previous posting that the link was somewhere around Beighton and suggested Spinkhill was the next LD&EC station on this northern link.
However, if we've somehow got on to the LD&EC via Tapton Junction, and without going by road from Chesterfield Midland to Chesterfield Market Place, or changing grades at Horns Bridge, then I accept that. So I think the next station should be:-
Scarcliffe.
I'm confused - according to the above reference to Wikki [for what it's worth, of course], there was a link from the LD&EC northwards from Langwith Junction, which was intended to join the M S & L, but instead joined the Midland at Beighton. That was why I said in a previous posting that the link was somewhere around Beighton and suggested Spinkhill was the next LD&EC station on this northern link.
However, if we've somehow got on to the LD&EC via Tapton Junction, and without going by road from Chesterfield Midland to Chesterfield Market Place, or changing grades at Horns Bridge, then I accept that. So I think the next station should be:-
Scarcliffe.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Which indeed it is....
Shirebrook North
We are now approaching the Langwith Junction...where the other line after Cresswell and Welbeck would have brought us to
Shirebrook North
We are now approaching the Langwith Junction...where the other line after Cresswell and Welbeck would have brought us to
Xenophon PCDGS
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Edwinstowe
I am off to scrutinise some other early 20th century maps of the dispted area after Woodhouse Mill
I am off to scrutinise some other early 20th century maps of the dispted area after Woodhouse Mill
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Ollerton
There was also Clipstone between Warsop and Edwinstowe, which was probably goods only though one source (that I don't really believe even though it quotes a reference) says it was also used for passengers. It does not feature in a June 1947 timetable for the line
There was also Clipstone between Warsop and Edwinstowe, which was probably goods only though one source (that I don't really believe even though it quotes a reference) says it was also used for passengers. It does not feature in a June 1947 timetable for the line