Clowne Disused Railway Station Restoration Update

We at the disused Clowne Railway Station near Bolsover today to get a restoration update.

The old Clowne South, LNER, or LDECR station as it is also known has been disused since the 1960s. Although the old booking office is still in use as business premises, the tunnel, platforms, trackbed and surrounding area have been fenced off and overgrown for many, many years.

That is until last year when the Clowne Local History Society embarked on their latest project to turn the old station site into a usable piece of land to commerorate the old station.

Since my video in October when I reported that the old station site had been cleared, we now see some mock up railway track emerging from the tunnel entrance. Where possible sleepers, rails and ballast have been recovered from the local area.

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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