June Update from Clowne LDECR Railway Station Restoration

Описание: We're back in Clowne Derbyshire for an update on the Station Restoration of the former LDECR station - Clowne South.

Since our last visit the team have taken delivery of a batch of old railway ballast from a local disused colliery railway line. This has been laid around the small section of track under the tunnel portal at the end of where the platforms once started.

Excavation has been ongoing to level off the earth piled up when the area was landsaped after closure.

The station was opened in March 1897 as Clown, by the Lancashire Derbyshire & East Coast Railway on the company's Beighton Branch between Langwith and Sheffield. The station building booking office was situated on top of the tracks with ramps to the platforms either side. In 1939 before WW2, passenger serivces over the line ceased leaving the stations existence in question. Before this time the LD&ECR was taken over by the Great Central Railway.
In 1951 the station was renamed Clowne South to distinguish is from it's neighbour on the MIdland Railway - Clowne & Barlborough station. Which sat only a few yards away.
The line and station remained open for excursions and freight traffic before 1964 when the station was closed completely.

The station was eroded. Local development erased the surrounding infrastructure piece by piece until the station site and tunnel entrance was left overgrown and a hotspot for anti-social behaviour. The station building remained in use thanks to it's street frontage and would later become a bank, bridal shop, photography shop and most recently a beauty salon. The station masters house sits aside the station and is now a business centre.

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