Alfreton
Exterior of Alfreton, Derbyshire, in pouring rain on the evening of Saturday, 2nd October 2021. The original station was opened by the Midland Railway as Alfreton on 1st May 1862 and renamed Alfreton & South Normanton on 7th November 1891. It was closed on 2nd January 1967 (and subsequently demolished) when local passenger services on the Erewash Valley Line were withdrawn. However, on 7th May 1973, a new station opened on the same site named Alfreton & Mansfield Parkway as Mansfield, across the border in Nottinghamshire, was the largest town in England at that time without a station, also lost under the Beeching cuts in 1965. It took 30 years for this to be rectified when the line serving Mansfield was reopened in 1995 and this station lost its Parkway status and was renamed as simply Alfreton.
Location: Alfreton
Original line: Pye Bridge to Clay Cross (Midland Railway)
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Station nameboards, National and Heritage lines 1974-2023
Date: 02/10/2021
Image number: 78660
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