| Scarcliffe | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Area | Derbyshire |
| Operations | |
| Original company | LD&ECR |
| Pre-grouping | Great Central Railway |
| Post-grouping | LNER British Railways |
| History | |
| 3 January 1898 | Opened |
| 3 December 1951 | Closed[1] |
| Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom | |
| Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z |
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Scarcliffe railway station was a former railway station in Scarcliffe, Derbyshire. It was opened by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (later part of the Great Central Railway and subsequently the LNER) in March 1897. As originally planned, this was a highly ambitious scheme, as its name suggests, but only the central section between Chesterfield and Lincoln, together with a branch from Langwith Junction to the outskirts of Sheffield, were ever built.
Scarcliffe station was built near the eastern entrance of the 2,624-yard (2,399-metre) Bolsover Tunnel at 521 feet (159 m) above sea level, the summit of the line. Eastwards, the line fell at 1 in 100 to Langwith Junction.
The section between Chesterfield and Langwith Junction (by then renamed Shirebrook North), was brought to a premature demise by British Railways in December 1951, due to the unsafe condition of Bolsover Tunnel[2]
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolsover South | British Railways | Shirebrook North | ||