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Welcome back to Clowne. It's June 2025 and we're catching up with the Clowne Local History Society and their work restoring the former station site and tunnel mouth.

In this update we will look at the latest arrival to the site. The addition of a semaphore signal in it's original position. Adam explains why it eventually had to be fitted upside down. The post was engineered by Clowne business Penny Engineering, who have contributed a lot of time, resources and skills to many aspect of the restoration site. The arm of the signal was donated from a contact at Barrow Hill Roundhouse.

We'll also have a look at what the team have been getting up to.


Link to Robin Penny's fundraising page for the 'RNLI Castle 2 Castle Swim 2025' - https://www.justgiving.com/page/robin...

***ABOUT THE STATION AND RAILWAY***

The station was opened in March 1897 as Clown (without the e), 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. The tunnel itself is now infilled at one end.


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