Langley Mill railway station

Langley Mill railway station (formerly known as Langley Mill for Heanor and Langley Mill and Eastwood) on the Erewash Valley Line serves the village of Langley Mill and the towns of Heanor in Derbyshire and Eastwood in Nottinghamshire, England. The station is 12 miles (19 km) north of Nottingham.

For other uses, see Langley Mill railway station (disambiguation).

Langley Mill
LocationLangley Mill, Borough of Amber Valley
England
Grid referenceSK449470
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeLGM
ClassificationDfT category F1
Key dates
6 September 1847Opened as Langley Mill for Heanor
1 November 1876Renamed Langley Mill and Eastwood
11 September 1933Renamed Langley Mill and Eastwood for Heanor
2 January 1967Closed
12 May 1986Reopened as Langley Mill[1]
Passengers
2015/16 115,686
2016/17 121,442
2017/18 101,824
2018/19 93,078
2019/20 92,144
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

The station lies between Nottingham and Sheffield and is managed by East Midlands Railway.

Services

Northern Trains run an hourly service between Nottingham and Leeds via Sheffield that stops at Langley Mill.[2] This service started from the December 2008 timetable change.

East Midlands Railway operate a few services per day from Langley Mill southbound to Nottingham and beyond (usually Norwich) and northbound to Sheffield (usually continuing to Liverpool Lime Street).

Some East Midlands Railway Mainline services from London St Pancras to Sheffield / Leeds call here, but generally interchange with London services should be made at Nottingham.[3]

Buses to use in Langley Mill are Rainbow 1, Amberline, Black Cat, 1A and others that can be found on the Trent Barton website.

Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
Northern Trains
Nottingham-Leeds
East Midlands Railway
Liverpool-Norwich
Limited Service
East Midlands Railway
Midland Mainline
Limited Service

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has two offset platforms (linked by underpass), with platform 1 (for Chesterfield and Sheffield) the more southerly of the pair. There are no permanent buildings other than standard waiting shelters; there is no ticket machine available, so all tickets must be purchased prior to travel or on the train. Digital CIS displays, automatic announcements, timetable poster boards and customer help points on each side provide train running information. Step-free access is only available to platform 1 (via ramp, platform 2 is reachable only by stairs).[4]

History

See also Langley Mill branch station

The station was opened on the Erewash Valley Line by the Midland Railway in 1847 and known as Langley Mill for Heanor. However, in 1876, the GNR built Eastwood and Langley Mill on its branch from the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Extension at Awsworth Junction. The Midland station then became Langley Mill and Eastwood.

In 1895, the Midland built a line from here through Heanor to Ripley with an adjacent station of its own. This was not profitable and closed in May 1926.

It was closed to passenger traffic on 2 January 1967 as a result of the Beeching Axe (along with Ilkeston Junction and Cossall, Alfreton and all the other remaining local stations on the same route),[5] but was subsequently reopened by British Rail in May 1986.[6] The former station (which was demolished after closure) had platforms opposite each other and was located on the site of the present platform 2. A new northbound platform had to be provided when the station was rebuilt, as the former site north of Station Road had been redeveloped. This is located close to where the old Ripley branch line platform once stood.[7]

References
  1. Butt, R.V.J., (1995) The Directory of Railway Stations, Yeovil: Patrick Stephens
  2. Table 34 National Rail timetable, May 2017
  3. Table 53 National Rail timetable, May 2017
  4. Langley Mill station facilities National Rail Enquiries
  5. Stations of the Erewash Westhouses Depot website, Retrieved 1 August 2017
  6. "The railway station that refused to die" Holmes, Godfrey The Independent article 1 April 2017; Retrieved 1 August 2017
  7. "Langley Mill railway station, Derbyshire (2013) Thompson, Nigel Geograph.org.uk; Retrieved 1 August 2017

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