Chesterfield railway station

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Parameter validation".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "check for deprecated parameters". Chesterfield railway station serves the market town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the Midland Main Line, which connects Template:Rws with Template:Rws. Four tracks pass through the station which has three platforms. It is currently operated by East Midlands Railway.

The town was once served by three stations; the others were Chesterfield Central (closed in 1963) and Chesterfield Market Place (closed in 1957).

History

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A freight train passing through the station in 1961, with the Crooked Spire in the background

The first line into Chesterfield was the North Midland Railway from Template:Rws to Template:Rws in 1840. The original station was built in a Jacobean style, similar to the one at Ambergate, but it was replaced in 1870 by a new one further south in the current location, when the Midland Railway built the New Road to Sheffield. This new station of 1870 was designed by the company architect John Holloway Sanders.[1]

In 1892, the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, later to become the Great Central Railway, crossed under the North Midland line Script error: No such module "convert". south at Horns Bridge to Chesterfield Central station 200 yards west of this station. In 1897, the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway arrived, crossing both North Midland and Great Central lines at Horns Bridge with a viaduct 700 feet long, leading to Chesterfield Market Place station at West Bars, near the Market Place.Template:Sfn[2]

The line into Market Place station closed to passengers in 1951,Template:Sfn due to problems in Bolsover Tunnel, although the station remained open for goods traffic until March 1957 when it was closed completely. The station building was demolished in 1972. The Great Central station closed in March 1963Template:Sfn and was demolished in 1973 to make way for the town's inner relief road.Template:Sfn

The Midland station was demolished and rebuilt in 1963. Most of the buildings from 1963 were demolished in the late 1990s, shortly after privatisation. The station was extensively rebuilt shortly after Midland Mainline took over its operation from British Rail in 1996.

This station is currentlyTemplate:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". owned by Network Rail but is operated by East Midlands Railway, which operates trains between Sheffield and London St Pancras International. Midland Mainline operated the franchise between 1996 and November 2007. The running of the station was passed to East Midlands Trains, who ran the station for nearly 12 years. Operation then passed to East Midlands Railway.[3][4]

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Up express in 1957
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Down iron ore train north of Chesterfield (Midland) in 1957
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Up coke train approaching Chesterfield (Midland) in 1957

Facilities

Entrance to the station is on Crow Lane and includes a car park, taxi rank and bus stop. There is also a small chargeable car park on the other side of Crow Lane. The main entrance leads to the station concourse, which was built in the late 1990s; it includes a ticket office, a newsagent, a café and a waiting room. The concourse and the waiting room both have direct access to platform 1. There is also a waiting room on platform 2, which is accessed via a tunnel, using the stairs or lift in the concourse.[5]

Layout

Script error: No such module "Multiple image". The fast lines have two large side platforms, one for each direction; these platforms are covered for around half their length. The goods lines pass around the rear of platform 2 and there is a third large platform here that serves the northbound goods line.

  • Platform 3 is bi-directional and was opened in July 2010. As of May 2015, it is used by some services on the Leeds-Nottingham and Liverpool-Norwich routes at peak periods and during engineering works to reduce dependence on replacement bus services.[6] It is located on the down slow line, backing on to platform 2, and is long enough to accommodate a 10 car train. Platform 3 had existed in a previous incarnation decades earlier, although it was a bay platform.[7][8]

The building of platform 3 was originally planned for 2007/8 to go with the East Midlands North Erewash resignalling scheme; it would have allowed passenger services to run on the bi-directional down slow line (goods line) from a new Chesterfield South Junction to Tapton Junction during perturbation or engineering work on the fast lines in this area. It would have also facilitated the turn back of trains at Chesterfield during the Bradway Tunnel blockade in 2008/9.[9] Work on the platform actually began in March 2010 and it was completed in July 2010, at a cost of £2.6 million.[10]

Services

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A map of East Midlands Railway's inter-city and Connect services, showing the current service pattern each hour

Chesterfield is served by three train operating companies:

  • East Midlands Railway operates regular inter-city services on the Midland Main Line between Sheffield and London St Pancras, via Derby and Leicester; this includes the 07:45 southbound departure, the Master Cutler. It also runs a route between Liverpool and Norwich, via Manchester Piccadilly and Nottingham.[11]
  • Northern Trains runs an hourly service between Nottingham and Leeds.[12]
  • CrossCountry operates a regular service between Sheffield and Derby; trains continue on to a variety of final destinations including Glasgow Central, Edinburgh Waverley, Plymouth, Reading, Southampton Central and Bristol Temple Meads.[13]

There are typically 12 passenger trains per hour passing through the station on weekdays (six in each direction), with ten of those calling.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
CrossCountry
Peak Hours only
CrossCountry
East Midlands Railway
Liverpool-Norwich
Limited Service
East Midlands Railway
Midland Main Line
Limited Service
Northern Trains
Nottingham-Leeds
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Bradford Interchange - Nottingham
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Clay Cross
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Line open, station closed
Clay Cross
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Midland Main Line 		style="background:#Template:MR colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" |   Whittington
Line open, station closed

In popular culture

A pivotal scene in Frederick Forsyth's novel The Fourth Protocol took place at Chesterfield railway station, including on the station platform and ensuing action on nearby streets.[14]

High Speed 2

High Speed 2 trains were planned to serve Chesterfield. A branch off the eastern section of the HS2 line south of Chesterfield would have routed via the M1 running parallel to HS2, allowing trains to continue to and through Chesterfield to Sheffield Midland station. On 17 July 2017, the government confirmed a stop at Chesterfield after approval of the M18/Eastern Route.[15] However, a further alteration to the HS2 plan in November 2021 said that HS2 would no longer go via Chesterfield, Sheffield and Leeds.

References

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