|
Growth |
| 1832 |
Famous
meeting at the Sun Inn, Eastwood, the "birth" of the Midland Railway |
| 1836 |
Parliamentary approval for Midland Counties line, connecting Derby,
Nottingham and Leicester. Plans for line along Erewash Valley dropped |
| 1839 |
Line from
Derby to Nottingham opened |
| 1840 |
Line from
Trent to Leicester opened |
| 1844 |
Merger of
the Midland Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham
and Derby Railway, to form the Midland Railway Company |
| 1847 |
Midland
Railway line from Trent to Codnor Park opened, including stations at
"Langley Mill for Heanor" and Shipley Gate |
| 1849 |
Line
extended to Pinxton |
| 1861 |
Erewash
Valley line extended from Codnor Park to Clay Cross – now becomes a main
line from north to south |
| 1875 |
Great
Northern open branch line from Awsworth to Pinxton, with stations at
Newthorpe and "Eastwood & Langley Mill" |
| 1890 |
Midland
Railway open branch line from Ripley to Heanor (Midland Road), with station
at "Crosshill & Codnor" |
| 1891 |
Great
Northern open line from Ilkeston to Heanor (Heanor Gate), with station also
at Marlpool |
| 1895 |
Midland
Railway's Ripley to Heanor line extended to Langley Mill station |
|
Decline |
| 1926 |
Midland
Railway passenger service between Langley Mill and Ripley ceased |
| 1928 |
Great
Northern close Marlpool station, and run only one unadvertised train each
way per day between Heanor and Ilkeston |
| 1929 |
Track
between Ripley and Heanor removed. Track from Heanor to main line at Milnhay
remains for goods traffic |
| 1939 |
Heanor
Great Northern station closed |
| 1948 |
Shipley
Gate Station closed |
| 1951 |
Heanor
Goods Station (Midland Road) closed |
| 1963 |
Great
Northern Pinxton branch, including Eastwood & Langley Mill closed to
passenger traffic |
| 1967 |
Langley
Mill Station closed |
| 1986 |
Langley
Mill Station re-opened! |
The Midland Railway Crosshill & Codnor station, on the
Langley Mill to Ripley branch line. Closed in 1926.
The Midland main line at Langley Mill in the 1960's, looking
from the Bridge Street to North Street footbridge, showing the gas tanks and the
Pickersgill and Frost foundry.
See the separate page on the
Great Northern at Eastwood and
Langley Mill Station for a gallery of photos taken shortly after the station
closed in 1963.
Last modified on
29 July 2010 06:36
