Langley Mill railway station

Langley Mill National Rail
Location
Place Langley Mill
Local authority Borough of Amber Valley
Grid reference SK449470
Operations
Station code LGM
Managed by East Midlands Trains
Number of platforms 2
DfT category F1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Increase 95,158
2013/14 Decrease 93,554
2014/15 Increase 106,542
2015/16 Increase 115,686
2016/17 Increase 121,442
History
6 September 1847 Opened as Langley Mill for Heanor
1 November 1876 Renamed Langley Mill and Eastwood
11 September 1933 Renamed Langley Mill and Eastwood for Heanor
2 January 1967 Closed
12 May 1986 Reopened as Langley Mill[1]
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Langley Mill from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Langley Mill railway station (formerly Langley Mill and Eastwood) on the Erewash Valley Line serves the village of Langley Mill and the towns of Heanor in Derbyshire and Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is 12 miles (19 km) north of Nottingham.

The station lies between Nottingham and Sheffield and is managed by East Midlands Trains.

Services

Northern run an hourly service between Nottingham and Leeds via Sheffield that stops at Langley Mill.[2] This service started from the December 2008 timetable change.

East Midlands Trains operate a few services per day from Langley Mill southbound to Nottingham and beyond (usually Norwich) and northbound to Sheffield (usually continuing to Liverpool Lime Street).

Some East Midlands Trains Mainline services from London St Pancras to Sheffield / Leeds call here, but generally interchange with London services should be made at Nottingham.[3]

Buses to use in Langley Mill are Rainbow 1, Amberline, Black Cat, 1A and others that can be found on the Trent Barton website.

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has two offset platforms (linked by underpass), with platform 1 (for Chesterfield and Sheffield) the more southerly of the pair. There are no permanent buildings other than standard waiting shelters; there is no ticket machine available, so all tickets must be purchased prior to travel or on the train. Digital CIS displays, automatic announcements, timetable poster boards and customer help points on each side provide train running information. Step-free access is only available to platform 1 (via ramp, platform 2 is reachable only by stairs).[4]

History

See also Langley Mill branch station

The station was opened on the Erewash Valley Line by the Midland Railway in 1847 and known as Langley Mill for Heanor. However, in 1876, the GNR built Eastwood and Langley Mill on its branch from the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension at Awsworth Junction. The Midland station then became Langley Mill and Eastwood.

In 1895, the Midland built a line from here through Heanor to Ripley with an adjacent station of its own. This was not profitable and closed in May 1926.

It was closed to passenger traffic on 2 January 1967 as a result of the Beeching Axe (along with Ilkeston Junction and Cossall, Alfreton and all the other remaining local stations on the same route)[5], but was subsequently reopened by British Rail in May 1986.[6] The former station (which was demolished after closure) had platforms opposite each other and was located on the site of the present platform 2. A new northbound platform had to be provided when the station was rebuilt, as the former site north of Station Road had been redeveloped. This is located close to where the old Ripley branch line platform once stood.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. ↑ Table 34 National Rail timetable, May 2017
  3. ↑ Table 53 National Rail timetable, May 2017
  4. ↑ Langley Mill station facilities National Rail Enquiries
  5. ↑ Stations of the Erewash Westhouses Depot website, Retrieved 1 August 2017
  6. ↑ "The railway station that refused to die" Holmes, Godfrey The Independent article 1 April 2017; Retrieved 1 August 2017
  7. ↑ "Langley Mill railway station, Derbyshire (2013) Thompson, Nigel Geograph.org.uk; Retrieved 1 August 2017
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Coordinates: 53°01′05″N 1°19′52″W / 53.018°N 1.331°W / 53.018; -1.331

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