Clowne Disused Railway Station Restoration Update - November 2023
We're back in Clowne, Derbyshire, for an update on the restoration of the former LDECR/LNER station.
Lots of cosmetic work since our last visit. The sillouhet of the train has now recieved some colour and looks splendid. Further work has been carried out to repair the ramps from the booking office down to the platforms. Work is ongoing to install an information board at the top of the station footpath on the way down to the Clowne Greenway. We also take a look at the colliery memorial with Remembrence Sunday decoration.
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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Thanks as always to the Clowne Local History Society for being so welcoming and letting me film them as they work away.
