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Heanor railway station (Midland Railway)

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Having been built for colliery traffic, passengers were an incidental, so only a shuttle was considered necessary. However, some trains ran between Nottingham and Ambergate or Chesterfield. One particularly complex service ran from Nottingham through Basford and Kimberley to Ilkeston Town, then via
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The station was to the east of Woodend Road and a section was accordingly renamed Midland Road. It was built in a cutting with an overbridge for the roadway, with the booking hall next to it. A short path from this led to a footbridge with steps down to each platform.
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The line came into being as competition for the GNR's branch. It was completed as far as Heanor by 1890, a year before the GNR station opened, but took another five years to reach Langley Mill .
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The road level buildings remain as a private dwelling. One of the only hints of its former use is a replica Heanor north totem affixed to a wall. the cutting has been filled in.
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Image taken from the approximate location of the Up platform of the former Heanor Midland Station, facing in the direction of the line towards Crosshill.
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This article is about the former Midland Railway station. For the former Great Northern Railway station, see
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renamed them Heanor North and Heanor South. However the Midland station finally closed in 1951.
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line. A Midland timetable in July 1922 noted "nearly 1 mile to Great Northern Station"
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Throughout their lives, both stations had been named simply Heanor, but in 1950,
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Services ended during the First World War, but the line reopened in 1920. In the
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of all lines into four main companies in 1923 the station became part of the
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Langley Mill to Ripley and Butterley to Chesterfield.
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Index

Heanor (MR) railway station
Heanor railway station (Great Northern Railway)
Heanor
Amber Valley
Midland Railway
London Midland and Scottish Railway
railway station
Heanor
Derbyshire
England
Midland Railway
Langley Mill (Branch) railway station
Erewash Valley Line
Ripley
Heanor
Ilkeston
Great Northern Railway
Derbyshire Extension
Grouping
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramways Company
General Strike
British Railways

Historical railways
Shipley Gate
Midland Railway
Crosshill and Codnor
Langley Mill (branch)
Midland Railway

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