Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station

Pye Hill and Somercotes
Location
Place Pye Hill
Area Ashfield
Grid reference SK443527
Operations
Original company Great Northern Railway
Pre-grouping Great Northern Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
History
24 March 1877 Station opened as Pye Hill
8 January 1906 Renamed Pye Hill and Somercotes
7 January 1963 Station closed[1]
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain
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Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station was a railway station on the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension on the branch between Kimberley and Pinxton. [2] It served the villages of Pye Hill and Somercotes.

The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway on 24 March 1877, and was originally named Pye Hill; it was renamed Pye Hill and Somercotes on 8 January 1906, and closed on 7 January 1963.[1] The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.

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Route

Preceding station Disused railways Following station
Codnor Park and Selston   Great Northern Railway
GNR Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension
Pinxton Branch		   Pinxton South

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Yeovil: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 192. ISBN 1 85260 508 1. R508. 
  2. ^ Higginson, M., (1989) The Friargate Line:Derby and the Great Northern Railway, Derby: Golden Pingle Publishing

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