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Chesterfield Central railway station

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Compared to nearby Chesterfield Midland, the station was little used. The number of passengers using the station during the week ending 19 August 1961 was 1,829, whereas Midland station was used by 22,285 passengers in the same week, over twelve times as many.
207:. The station opened in 1892 and was closed in 1963. Although the official closing date was 4 March 1963, the last passenger train to use the station did so on 15 June, when 'Flying Scotsman' stopped there during a Railway Preservation Society tour from 36: 1499: 226:. The 410-yard (370 m) tunnel immediately to the south of the station, which ran from Brewery Street to Hollis Lane, remains in place, sealed at its northern end due to the road construction 222:
The station was demolished by 1973 to make way for Chesterfield's inner-relief road, much of which was built along the former trackbed of the GCR. This dual-carriageway now forms part of the
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Site of the former Central Station, on what is now the A61 Inner-Relief road, looking south in 2008, Photo by Nick Catford
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Chesterfield was, at one time, served by three railway stations. The other two are:
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Chesterfield
Derbyshire
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway
Great Central Railway
LNER
British Railways
railway station
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
Great Central
Staveley Central
Heath railway station
Great Central Main Line
Sheffield Victoria
Marylebone
A61 road
Chesterfield Midland station
Chesterfield Market Place station
Cowlishaw 2006


Butt 1995



Catford 2017
ISBN
978-1-85260-508-7
"Chesterfield Central"

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