Clowne Disused Railway Station Restoration Update - The Train Arrives

We're back in the Derbyshire town of Clowne to look at the latest updates on the disused station restoration. This is the former LNER/LDECR station filmed in early June.

You can view the last episode here -    • Clowne Railway Station Restoration Ap...  

Since our last visit in April we can see the progress has continued on the fabricated steam engine that is presented to be emerging from the tunnel. The Clowne Local History Society has also been busy with the repair of the brickword of the ramp down to the northbound platform. New railings have also appear on the ramp.

The station was opened in March 1897 as Clown, 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.

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