Staveley Central railway station

Staveley Central
Site of Staveley Central with Ireland Way now running along the site of the platforms and part of the Trans-Pennine Trail following the former trackbed.
General information
Location	Staveley, Chesterfield England
Coordinates	53°16′12″N 1°20′48″W / 53.27000°N 1.34667°W / 53.27000; -1.34667
Grid reference	SK435749
Platforms	4
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	MS&LR
Pre-grouping	Great Central Railway
Post-grouping	LNER British Railways
Key dates
1 June 1892	Opened (Staveley Town)
25 September 1950	Renamed (Staveley Central)
4 March 1963	Closed to regular passenger traffic
1964	Closed Completely to passenger traffic[1]
14 June 1965	closed for freight [2]

Staveley Central was a railway station serving the town of Staveley, Derbyshire, England.

The station was on the Great Central Main Line which ran between London Marylebone and Manchester via Sheffield Victoria. It was opened on 1 June 1892^[3] as Staveley Town and was renamed Staveley Central on 25 September 1950 by British Railways to reduce confusion with the ex-MR station, also called Staveley Town, which was about 250 yards away on the same street. The latter station was on the Barrow Hill to Clowne and Barrow Hill to Pleasley West lines. The renaming also reduced the likelihood of people confusing the station with that at Barrow Hill and Staveley Works, which was officially renamed Barrow Hill on 18 June 1951 to further differentiate the stations.

Staveley Central closed on 4 March 1963, but continued to serve summer weekend excursion traffic until the end of the 1964 season.

The station was the northern junction for the loop line to Chesterfield Central and so had four platforms.^[4] The timber-built booking hall was on the Lowgates road overbridge^[5] and there was a waiting room on each platform. The station was also the junction for branches to the Ireland, Hartington and Markham Collieries and at the south end was Staveley (G.C.) Engine Shed (shed code 38D and latterly 41H in BR days). This, too, was subject to confusion with the ex-MR "Staveley" engine shed over a mile away at Barrow Hill, which was coded 18D in BR days. Staveley ex-GC engine shed has been demolished but the ex-MR Barrow Hill Engine Shed survives as a railway engineering and preservation site.

The location of Staveley Central station has been turned into a road to linking to the M1 motorway junction 29A.

Four stations have had "Staveley" in their name at some point in their history:

• Staveley Central, the subject of this article, which was known as "Staveley Town" from 1892 to 1950.
• Staveley Town, a Midland Railway station on another line about 250 yards away on the same street,
• Barrow Hill which in its early years was named "Staveley".
• Staveley Works which was the next station from Staveley Central towards Chesterfield Central and Sheffield Victoria.

• 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.
• Dow, George (1965). Great Central, Volume Three: Fay Sets the Pace, 1900–1922. Shepperton: Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-0263-0. OCLC 500447049.
• Grainger, Ken (2002). Sheffield Victoria to Chesterfield Central, The "Derbyshire Lines" of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Part 1. Bredbury, Cheshire: Foxline Limited. ISBN 978-1-870119-83-2.
• Kaye, A.R. (1988). North Midland and Peak District Railways in the Steam Age, Volume 2. Chesterfield: Lowlander Publications. ISBN 978-0-946930-09-8.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Staveley Central railway station.

• "The station and line on navigable maps with overlays". Rail Map Online.
• "The station on navigable maps with overlays". National Library of Scotland.
• "The station on a navigable 1947 O.S. map". npe Maps.
• "The station and line BEI". Railway Codes.
• "The station's history". Disused Stations.