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West Hallam railway station

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37: 229:, were killed while crossing the track at West Hallam Station. Apparently they mistook a light engine working from Derby as their train and while hurrying to cross the line to the platform were both hit and died immediately from head injuries. Following a recommendation of the coroner at their inquest, West Hallam became one of the few intermediate stations on the line to be given a footbridge. 312:
Most signs of the railway have disappeared apart from the station building itself. Part was demolished on closure, but the main part is now a private dwelling known as 'Station House'. The large cutting which took the line from the station past Stanley was filled in using spoil from the neighbouring
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to avoid confusion with another station in Yorkshire. It was provided with substantial brick buildings; a two-storey station master's house and the usual single storey offices on the main platform with a small timber waiting room on the other.
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former Stanley colliery so that the route of the line can only be established by using field boundaries today.
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Clinker's Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales 1830–1977
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On a Sunday evening in October 1884 Godfrey Bostock (68) and his wife Mary (67), who lived in
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the line climbed through West Hallam to a summit at Morley Tunnel before descending towards
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Beside the presence of productive collieries, it was particularly busy during
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The Friargate Line:Derby and the Great Northern Railway,
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due to a nearby ordnance depot, a satellite of that at
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Newspaper report, Ilkeston Advertiser 11 October 1884
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Stanley
West Hallam
Erewash
Grid reference
SK425408
Great Northern Railway
London and North Eastern Railway
London Midland Region of British Railways
railway station
villages
Stanley
West Hallam
Derbyshire
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
Derbyshire Extension
Kimberley
Smalley Common
World War II
Chilwell
Ilkeston
Breadsall
Ilkeston North
London Midland Region of British Railways
(Derby) Friargate Line
Breadsall
ISBN
1-85260-508-1
ISBN
0-905466-19-5

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