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was visiting the site and noticed some tar that had been spilled and covered with iron foundry slag. A major trouble with highways at that time was the dust raised by increasingly speedy vehicles and various ways had been tried unsuccessfully for binding the road surface. He noticed that it had
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with their four furnaces 45 feet high - later increased to 60 feet - had to import their ironstone from outside the area. They also imported their coal since the local output was of domestic quality rather than being suitable for smelting.
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Denby itself is a fairly scattered community, but the main part was about a mile away. From
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An important cargo was coal all from the many mines and opencast workings. An amount of ironstone was also worked but was of low quality. This meant that the local
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The railway provided a siding for this company and also built a facility for processing the slag from the iron production. It so happened in 1901, the
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withstood the passage of traffic and obtained a
British patent for producing what he called
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Charles Alfred RIgnall 1910 - ca. 1918 (formerly station master at Redbourn)
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of all lines (into four main companies) in 1923 the station became part of the
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J.W. Peach 1905 - 1908 (formerly station master at
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George E. Aldred 1872 - 1877 (afterwards station master at
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J. Gallelty 1904 - 1905 (formerly station master at
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Orlando Sims 1877 - 1902 (formerly station master at
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H.T.. Brown 1865 - 1866 (afterwards station master at Ilkeston)
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Ripley and Heanor News and Ilkeston Division Free Press
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993:Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension
602:– via British Newspaper Archive.
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175:Station closes to passenger services
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1349:GCR Main Line and Chesterfield loop
508:Midland Railway Miscellaneous Depts
137:London Midland and Scottish Railway
450:The Directory of Railway Stations,
205:The remnants of a platform in 1990
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477:"Fatal Railway Accident at Denby"
252:(approximately 3 miles north of
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821:Sheffield & Midland C'ttee
703:Cromford and High Peak Railway
151:Station opens as Smithy Houses
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1150:Castle Donington and Shardlow
587:"Denby's New Station-Master"
224:which served the village of
796:Great Longstone for Ashford
761:Manchester, Buxton, Matlock
640:Closed railway stations in
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402:Line closed, station closed
272:Denby Iron and Coal Company
236:. It was opened in 1856 as
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1362:Sheepbridge and Brimington
1324:Upperthorpe and Killamarsh
1122:Chellaston and Swarkestone
566:. England. 20 January 1910
484:. England. 12 October 1859
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1279:Eastwood and Langley Mill
1216:Codnor Park and Ironville
594:. England. 13 August 1920
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1206:Westhouses and Blackwell
1160:Midland Counties Railway
920:Springfield (Derbyshire)
452:Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
538:. England. 7 March 1902
340:Richard Loft until 1859
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1429:Clowne and Barlborough
1291:and East Coast Railway
1289:Lancashire, Derbyshire
1256:Long Eaton (1863–1967)
1251:Long Eaton (1847–1863)
953:Eckington and Renishaw
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1094:Langley Mill (Branch)
983:Derby Nottingham Road
945:North Midland Railway
867:Ashover Light Railway
592:Derby Daily Telegraph
461:Sprenger, H., (2009)
448:Butt, R.V.J., (1995)
250:Little Eaton Junction
218:Denby railway station
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300:Little Eaton Gangway
284:Edgar Purnell Hooley
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1193:Erewash Valley line
763:and Midland Jcn Rly
388:Historical railways
370:J.H. Shaw from 1908
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688:Clifton (Mayfield)
392:Following station
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123:Pre-grouping
60:Amber Valley
18:
1510:Swadlincote
1505:Sheepbridge
1089:Heanor (MR)
1026:West Hallam
963:Whittington
958:Barrow Hill
880:Salter Lane
786:Monsal Dale
776:Peak Forest
736:Parsley Hay
726:Dowlow Halt
598:20 February
570:20 February
542:20 February
514:12 February
504:"1859-1866"
488:20 February
172:1 June 1930
92: /
68:Coordinates
1545:Categories
1314:Scarcliffe
1211:Pye Bridge
1011:Mickleover
968:Clay Cross
905:Hurst Lane
829:Birch Vale
711:Shallcross
673:Tissington
663:Hartington
642:Derbyshire
559:"Redbourn"
510:: 86. 1914
436:References
304:Chaddesden
244:to on its
230:Derbyshire
77:53°01′16″N
1495:Hazelwood
1372:Grassmoor
1329:Spinkhill
1168:Borrowash
1127:Melbourne
1021:Breadsall
978:Wingfield
915:Clay Lane
895:Dale Bank
791:Longstone
716:Ladmanlow
683:Ashbourne
143:Key dates
80:1°25′32″W
1475:Egginton
1465:Buxworth
1444:Glapwell
1201:Doe Hill
1074:Coxbench
1041:Marlpool
973:Stretton
925:Holmgate
910:Stretton
890:Milltown
885:Fallgate
857:Woodhead
834:Hayfield
806:Bakewell
314:Grouping
52:Location
1530:Unstone
1485:Gresley
1397:Pilsley
1236:Trowell
1069:Kilburn
900:Woolley
852:Crowden
811:Rowsley
731:Hurdlow
721:Hindlow
531:"Denby"
420:
406:
398:Kilburn
312:In the
240:by the
234:England
118:History
113:Disused
63:England
1412:Clowne
1178:Sawley
1059:Ripley
1006:Etwall
801:Hassop
424:Ripley
289:Tarmac
258:Ripley
256:) to
220:was a
110:Status
1458:Other
1392:Heath
1261:Trent
1064:Denby
254:Derby
248:from
226:Denby
56:Denby
27:Denby
1414:and
600:2021
572:2021
544:2021
516:2021
490:2021
228:in
1547::
590:.
562:.
534:.
506:.
480:.
320:.
282:,
260:.
232:,
58:,
633:e
626:t
619:v
518:.
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