Hazelwood railway station

Hazelwood Railway Station is a disused railway station on the Wirksworth branch of the Midland Railway. It served the village of Hazelwood. The line has been reopened in stages as the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.

Hazelwood
LocationHazelwood, Amber Valley
England
Coordinates53.0004°N 1.5250°W / 53.0004; -1.5250
Platforms1
Other information
StatusDisused
History
Original companyMidland Railway
Key dates
1 October 1867opened
16 June 1947closed (passenger)
1953closed (goods)

History

The Midland Railway opened Hazelwood and other stations on the branch line to Wirksworth on 1 October 1867. The station was designed by the Midland Railway company architect John Holloway Sanders.[1]

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway temporarily withdrew Wirksworth branch passenger services from 16 June 1947 due to postwar fuel shortages. British Railways made this closure permanent from May 1949 when the line was removed from the summer timetable. BR withdrew railway goods services from Hazelwood on 2 March 1964, but the branch remained in use for mineral freight until December 1989.

The station is the only one on the branch line to have had its original platform removed.[2]

The station building and yard were sold and are now the premises of a large timber yard and sawmill.[3]

WyvernRail plc owns the line and the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway operates it. The section of the line through Hazelwood reopened to passenger traffic in 2011 but at present there are no plans to reopen the station.

Spelling

The station was originally spelt Hazlewood in the 1867 Midland Railway timetable. The village itself was spelt Hazzlewood on an Ordnance Survey map of the time. It was subsequently spelt Hazelwood on timetables and station name boards.[4] The OS changed to the new spelling around 1920.

Location

The Station is on Nether Lane north of the B5023 Wirksworth road, which is the main route from Duffield to Wirksworth and parallels the railway along the Ecclesbourne valley.

Route
Preceding station Historical railways Following station
Duffield   Midland Railway
Wirksworth Branch		   Shottle

References
  1. "Notes by the Way". Derbyshire Times and Chesterfield Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 1 November 1884. Retrieved 12 July 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  2. "Photos of the line restoration between Idridgehay and Duffield, including views of Hazelwood station". Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  3. "A. Hingley & Son (Timber) Ltd - Contact us". Archived from the original on 13 August 2009. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
  4. Sprenger, Howard (2004). The Wirksworth Branch. London: Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-625-6.
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