CHESTERFIELD RAILWAY STATION

'Chesterfield railway station' is a medium-sized railway station, 12 miles (20km) south of Sheffield Midland station and to the east of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, town centre. Four tracks go through it; two fast lines (for all passenger trains) pass through the station and two goods lines bypass the station to the East.

Contents

History

Station layout

Platforms and destinations

References

See also

External links

History

The first line into Chesterfield was the North Midland Railway from Derby to Leeds in 1840. The original station was built in a Jacobean style similar to the one at Ambergate but it was replaced in 1870 by a new one further north, when the Midland Railway built the ''new road'' to Sheffield.
In 1893 the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, later taken over by the Great Central Railway, crossed under the North Midland line half a mile south, at Horns Bridge, to a station a few yards west. In 1897, the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway arrived, with a viaduct seven hundred feet long, above both lines, with a station at the Market Place.

The Great Central station closed in 1963 and was demolished in 1973 to make way for the town's inner relief road. The line into Market Place station closed in 1951 due to problems in Bolsover Tunnel, the station building was demolished in the 1970s. The Midland station was demolished and rebuilt in 1963. Most of the buildings from 1963 were demolished in the late 90s, shortly after privatisation and most of the buildings on site now date from then.
This station is currently owned by Network Rail but is run by Midland Mainline, which operates trains between Sheffield and London St Pancras, which is part of the National Express Group. Midland Mainline extensively rebuilt the station shortly after taking it over from British Rail in 1996.

Station layout

Entrance to the station is on Crow Lane and includes a car park, taxi rank and bus stop. There is also a small car park on the other side of Crow Lane which does not have a parking charge. The main entrance leads to the station concourse, which is very spacious and was built in the late 1990s. It includes a ticket office, a newsagent, a café and a waiting room. The concourse and the waiting room both have direct access to platform 1. There is also a waiting room on platform 2, which is accessed via a tunnel, using the stairs or lift in the concourse.

Platforms and destinations

The fast lines have two large side platforms - one for each direction. The goods lines do not have platforms and pass around the rear of platform 2. The platforms are covered for around half their length.
Platform 1 is for northbound trains for stations towards Sheffield, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Oxford Road, Liverpool Lime Street, Leeds, York, Doncaster, Newcastle, Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central.
Platform 2 is for southbound trains, calling at stations towards London St Pancras, Derby, Nottingham, Peterborough, Norwich, Cambridge, Leicester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff Central, Bournemouth, Southampton, Plymouth and Paignton.
The 07:40 Midland Mainline Master Cutler service runs directly to London non-stop Mondays to Fridays providing a fast business train. The service also uses the Erewash Valley Line avoiding Derby.
The provision of an additional platform at Chesterfield station is being developed. This is building on the opportunity provided under the East Midlands North Erewash resignalling scheme to allow passenger services to run on the bi-directional down slow line (former goods line) from the new Chesterfield South Junction to Tapton Junction during times of perturbation or engineering work on the fast lines in this area and will facilitate the turn back of trains at Chesterfield during the proposed Bradway Tunnel blockade in 2008/9. [1]

References

★ Network Rails plans for the Midland Main Line

See also

Chesterfield was served by up to three railway stations:

★ Chesterfield Central Station

★ Chesterfield Market Place Station

External links

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★ Midland Mainline