Spondon railway station

Spondon railway station serves Spondon in Derby, England. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by East Midlands Railway. It is 125 miles 67 chains (202.5 km) north of London St Pancras.

Spondon
LocationSpondon, City of Derby
England
Grid referenceSK397351
Managed byEast Midlands Railway
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeSPO
ClassificationDfT category F2
Passengers
2014/15 26,330
2015/16 25,478
2016/17 23,476
2017/18 25,090
2018/19 18,726
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Spondon is a penalty fare station if travelling with EMR. It is an unstaffed station equipped with a permit to travel machine.

History

Lying on the Derby–Nottingham line, the first station on the site was opened by the Midland Counties Railway (MCR) on 5 June 1839. The fifth station from Nottingham, it was kept by a Mr. Carter.

Trains to Spondon originally left from the north end of Derby station before turning east towards Nottingham. However, on 27 June 1867 the Midland Railway, successor to the MCR, opened a new route towards Nottingham (and London) which led from the south end of Derby station (so that Manchester – London trains would no longer have to reverse at Derby). The new route and the old joined immediately west of Spondon, which was to remain a junction station until 1969, when the original, more northerly, connection to Derby was closed as a through route.

The station was enlarged in the early 20th century to cope with the volume of traffic for the nearby British Celanese plant. In the 1920s, more than 14,000 worked here. The station is also the location of the junction for rail freight traffic into the British Celanese works.

It was planned that both platforms would be extended by up to 25 metres no later than 2012.[1]

Stationmasters

On 13 August 1924 the station master, Henry Ernest Haines, was killed in the stationmaster’s house when a lorry crashed into the building. The driver of the lorry was heading for the British Celanese works and had crossed the canal bridge when he realised that the level crossing gates were closed. He was unable to stop and rather than run into the gates he steered into the stationmaster’s house and office. [2]

  • Joseph Chambers 1857[3] - 1876
  • G. Bailey 1876 - 1886
  • James C. Chidgey 1886 - 1897[4] (afterwards station master at Redland, Bristol)
  • Samuel Pitt 1897 - 1898[5] (formerly station master at Oakley, Bedfordshire, afterwards station master at Rowsley)
  • F. Porter 1898 - 1901 (afterwards station master at Bakewell)
  • William Cope 1901 - 1909[6] (afterwards station master at Duffield)
  • James Harford 1909? - 1921 (formerly station master at Tibshelf, afterwards station master at Chinley)
  • Henry Ernest Haines 1921 - 1924[7]
  • Ernest J. Brooks 1925 - 1931[8] (formerly station master at Thrapstone)
  • W.B. Barker 1932 - 1940[9]
  • Edmund T. Jackson 1940 - 1947 (formerly station master at Dronfield, afterwards station master at Belper)
  • G.R. Hemmings 1947 - ???? (formerly station master at Rowsley)

Current services

Today, Spondon station is managed by East Midlands Railway, although many of trains serving it are operated by CrossCountry, this being a consequence of how the operations of the previous franchise-holder, Central Trains, were divided between them. Trains operate from Spondon to Nottingham and Derby, with most of the latter continuing to Matlock. A few Birmingham New Street and Cardiff Central services also call during peak periods and in the evening.[10]

East Midlands Railway Mainline services from Leeds, Sheffield and London St Pancras run through at high speed and do not stop. Interchange with Mainline services can be made at Derby.

There is no Sunday service.

References
  1. "Network Rail CP4 Delivery Plan 2009 Enhancements programme: statement of scope, outputs and milestones" (PDF). Network Rail. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
  2. "Spondon Fatality. Motor Crashes into Station Offices. Station Master Killed". Derby Daily Telegraph. England. 13 August 1924. Retrieved 25 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. "Fatal Accident on the Midland Railway". Derby Mercury. England. 24 November 1858. Retrieved 24 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  4. "Spondon". Derby Mercury. England. 2 June 1897. Retrieved 24 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. "Midland and G.W.R. Appointment". Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal. England. 1 October 1921. Retrieved 24 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. "The Stationmaster Honoured". Belper News. England. 26 March 1909. Retrieved 24 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. "Spondon Smash. Inquest on the Village Stationmaster". Derby Daily Telegraph. England. 2 February 1931. Retrieved 24 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. "Stationmaster's Death". Derby Daily Telegraph. England. 2 February 1931. Retrieved 24 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  9. "Stationmaster to leave Spondon". Derby Daily Telegraph. England. 7 September 1940. Retrieved 24 January 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  10. GB eNRT 2015-16 Edition, Table 56
  • The Nottingham and Derby Railway Companion, (1839) Republished 1979 with Foreword by J.B.Radford, Derbyshire Record Society
  • Higginson, M, (1989) The Midland Counties Railway: A Pictorial Survey, Derby: Midland Railway Trust.
Preceding station   National Rail   Following station
CrossCountry
Mondays-Saturdays only
East Midlands Railway
Derwent Valley Line
Mondays-Saturdays only
  Historical railways  
Derby
Line and station open		   Midland Railway
Midland Main Line		   Borrowash
Line open, station closed

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