Eckington and Renishaw railway station

Eckington and Renishaw railway station is a former railway station between Eckington and Renishaw in Derbyshire, England.

Eckington and Renishaw
General information
Location	Eckington, District of North East Derbyshire England
Grid reference	SK 442 786
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Key dates
11 May 1840	Station opened as "Eckington"
13 September 1874	New station
10 April 1886	Renamed Eckington and Renishaw
1 October 1951	Closed

North Midland Railway
72¾ Leeds (Hunslet Lane) 70¾ Hunslet (1850) 68¾ Woodlesford 66¼ Methley Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway North Eastern Railway Methley Joint Railway 64¼ Calder Viaduct Altofts and Whitwood (1870) York and North Midland Railway 63¼ Normanton Manchester and Leeds Railway 59¾ Barnsley Canal Oakenshaw for Wakefield Sandal and Walton (1870) 58¼ Chevet Tunnel 57 56 ¾ Royston and Notton ( 1st 2nd ) ( 1841–1900 1900–1968 ) 53¾ Cudworth 49¼ Darfield (2nd) (1901–1963) 48¾ Cat Hill Tunnel 48¾ Darfield (1st) (1840–1901) 47¾ Wath North 45¾ Swinton Town 43¾ Kilnhurst West Parkgate and Rawmarsh (1853) 40¾ Rotherham Masborough Sheffield and Rotherham Railway Ickles viaduct 36¾ Treeton 35¼ Woodhouse Mill 34¾ Beighton (1840-1843) 32¼ Killamarsh West 30¼ Eckington and Renishaw 27¾ Barrow Hill Whittington Tapton Junction 25 24 ¾ Chesterfield original current 20¾ Clay Cross Clay Cross Tunnel 17¾ Stretton 14¾ Wingfield 11½ Lodge Hill Tunnel Cromford Canal aqueduct 11 10½ Ambergate current original Toadmoor (Hag Wood) Tunnel Longland Tunnel 7¼ 7 Belper current original Milford Tunnel 5¼ 5 Duffield current original Nottingham Road (1856) 0¾ Derby

See also

Three stations have at some time included "Eckington" in their names:

• Eckington on the Midland Railway route between Birmingham New Street and Bristol Temple Meads
• Renishaw Central on the Great Central Main Line between Sheffield Victoria and Nottingham Victoria, and
• Eckington and Renishaw which is the subject of this article.

History

The station was opened by the North Midland Railway on their "Old Road" between Chesterfield and Rotherham Masborough.

The original station was of an ornate Italianate design by Francis Thompson and was replaced by a new one fourteen chains further north in 1874.

It was renamed by the Midland Railway as Eckington and Renishaw in 1886 since it was near to the Renishaw Iron Company's works and there was another "Eckington" station on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway which the Midland had acquired.

The Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway) subsequently opened a station on 1 June 1892 within sight of the Midland's "Eckington and Renishaw" and called their station "Eckington and Renishaw". The ex-Great Central station was renamed Renishaw Central by British Railways on 25 September 1950.

The street level booking office was built on a bridge over the line with covered stairways leading down to the two platforms.

The station closed completely in 1951. The line is now part of the current Midland Main Line. It is used predominantly for freight, with a handful of passenger trains going the "long way round" from Chesterfield to Sheffield via the Old Road and Darnall largely to retain staff route knowledge in case of diversions.

Passenger services

In 1922 passenger services calling at Eckington and Renishaw were at their most intensive, with trains serving three destinations via three overlapping routes:

• On Sundays only
  • stopping trains plied directly between Rotherham Masborough and Chesterfield (MR) via the Old Road.
• On Mondays to Saturdays three stopping services plied between Sheffield (MR) and Chesterfield
  • most ran direct down the "New Road" through Dronfield and went nowhere near Eckington and Renishaw.
• the other two services went the "long way round" via the "Old Road". They set off north eastwards from Sheffield (MR) towards Rotherham then swung east to go south along the Old Road
  • one of these continued past Holmes, a short distance before Masboro' then swung hard right, next stop Treeton, then all stations, including Eckington and Renishaw, to Chesterfield,
  • the other continued past Attercliffe Road then swung right onto the Sheffield District Railway passing through or calling at West Tinsley and Catcliffe before Treeton, after which they called at all stations to Chesterfield.

References

Sources

• Bradshaw, George (1985) [1922]. July 1922 Railway Guide. Newton Abbott: David & Charles.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Pixton, Bob (2001). North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route: Part 2 Chesterfield-Sheffield-Rotherham. Nottingham: Runpast Publishing, (now Book Law). ISBN 978-1870754514.

Preceding station		Disused railways		Following station
Killamarsh West Line open, station closed		Midland Railway North Midland Railway "Old Road"		Barrow Hill Line open, station closed

External links

• Eckington and Renishaw station: old maps via Old-Maps