Barrow Hill railway station

Barrow Hill
General information
Location	Staveley, Borough of Chesterfield England
Coordinates	53°16′23″N 1°22′41″W / 53.2730°N 1.3781°W / 53.2730; -1.3781
Grid reference	SK 415 752
Platforms	3
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North Midland Railway
Pre-grouping	Midland Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway London Midland Region of British Railways
Key dates
6 April 1841	Opened as Staveley
1 November 1888	Replaced by new station
1 June 1900	Renamed Barrow Hill and Staveley Works
18 June 1951	Renamed Barrow Hill
5 July 1954	Closed for regular passenger services[1]
after 1981	closed completely

Barrow Hill railway station is a former railway station in the village of Barrow Hill in northern Derbyshire, England.

The station was originally opened as "Staveley" in 1841, a year after the opening of the North Midland Railway. It was designed to serve the village of Staveley and the substantial ironworks near the station.

Allen's guide of 1842 writes of "Staveley upon the hill to the left ; Mr. Barrow's iron-works in the valley."^[2]

The station on what became known as the "Old Road" between Chesterfield and Rotherham Masborough. It was in an area undergoing rapid industrialisation. Iron working had been carried on for many centuries and Staveley works itself had been opened in 1702. The land originally had been owned by the Duke of Devonshire but the copyhold had been bought by Richard Barrow in 1840.

Whites Gazetteer, in 1857, records "Staveley Works, 1 mile E. from Staveley, is an ancient iron smelting establishment; there are documents in existence proving it to have been a place of considerable importance centuries ago, but its early history will not bear any comparison with the vastness of operations in the present day. Here are the collieries and extensive ironworks of Richard Barrow, Esq., with blast furnaces, producing 200 tons of metal weekly. Castings and foundry work of all kinds are executed at this extensive establishment. Neat residences for the clerks and overlookers have been built in the vicinity, besides a great number of cottages."^[3]

Local ore had been worked out by 1870, but the works continued to expand, bringing increasing work for the railway. The station was moved and rebuilt in 1888 in a new position when the Clowne Branch was opened.

There were three platforms, two on the main line and one for the branch,^[4] with typical Midland buildings, some in brick others of timber.^[5]

In 1870, a large locomotive shed was opened, known as Staveley (Barrow Hill) Depot, coded 18D by the LMS and renumbered 41E in 1958. It included a 24 "road" (track) roundhouse. It closed in 1991, but has been preserved and reopened in 1998 as Barrow Hill Roundhouse & Railway Centre.

In 1900, the station was renamed "Barrow Hill and Staveley Works". It was renamed again by British Railways in 1951, becoming plain Barrow Hill.

The station closed to regular passenger traffic in 1954^[6] but remained in place for many years. On 26 September 1971, it was used for a shuttle service from Chesterfield in connection with an open day at Barrow Hill engine shed.^[7] It remained in use for special services until at least 1981.^[8]

At 22 June 2013 the line is part of the Midland Main Line. It is used predominantly for freight, with a handful of passenger trains going the "long way round" from Chesterfield to Sheffield via the Old Road and Darnall largely to retain staff route knowledge in case of diversions.^[9]

v t e Midland Railway
Legend
Clowne and Doe Lea branches
Key open ex-Midland Railway Lines Clowne Branch Doe Lea Branch other closed Midland Railway Lines ex-London and North Eastern Railway Lines
Context
Great Central Main Line to Sheffield Victoria Midland Rly "Old Road" to Rotherham Masborough Robin Hood Line to Worksop Staveley Town Whitwell Staveley Central Seymour Junction Barrow Hill Clowne and Barlborough Whittington Creswell Junction Midland Main Line to Sheffield Creswell Chesterfield Midland Main Line to Derby Langwith Whaley Thorns Bolsover Castle Doe Lea Viaduct Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Palterton and Sutton Glapwell Langwith Rowthorn Tunnel Rowthorn and Hardwick Shirebrook Pleasley West to Teversall Manor Mansfield Woodhouse Mansfield Robin Hood Line to Nottingham (MR)
Detail
Lanc's, Derbyshire & East Coast Rly to Spinkhill Robin Hood Line to Worksop Barlborough Colliery Southgate Colliery Clowne and Barlborough Whitwell Clowne South Creswell Junction Great Central Main Line to Sheffield Victoria Elmton & Creswell Hartington Colliery Creswell and Welbeck to Barrow Hill Lanc's, Derbyshire & East Coast Rly to Shirebrook North Bell House Sidings Staveley Central Oxcroft Colliery Staveley Town Seymour Colliery Ireland Colliery Seymour Junction Markham Colliery/Vale Coalite Chemical Bolsover Colliery Bolsover Castle Doe Lea Viaduct (Lanc's, Derbyshire & East Coast Rly) Bolsover South (LD&ECR) to Shirebrook North Byron Bricks Palterton and Sutton Ramcroft Colliery Glapwell Colliery Great Northern Railway to Shirebrook North Glapwell Pleasley West Pleasley East Rowthorn Tunnel Pleasley Colliery Rowthorn and Hardwick Mansfield Woodhouse to Teversall Manor Mansfield Great Northern Railway to Nottingham Victoria Robin Hood Line to Nottingham (MR)

v t e North Midland Railway
Legend
72¾ Leeds (Hunslet Lane) 70¾ Hunslet (1850) 68¾ Woodlesford 66¼ Methley Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway North Eastern Railway Methley Joint Railway 64¼ Calder Viaduct Altofts and Whitwood (1870) York and North Midland Railway 63¼ Normanton Manchester and Leeds Railway 59¾ Barnsley Canal Oakenshaw for Wakefield Sandal and Walton (1870) 58¼ Chevet Tunnel 57 56 ¾ Royston and Notton ( 1st 2nd ) ( 1841–1900 1900–1968 ) 53¾ Cudworth 49¼ Darfield (2nd) (1901–1963) 48¾ Cat Hill Tunnel 48¾ Darfield (1st) (1840–1901) 47¾ Wath North 45¾ Swinton Town 43¾ Kilnhurst West Parkgate and Rawmarsh (1853) 40¾ Rotherham Masborough Sheffield and Rotherham Railway Ickles viaduct 36¾ Treeton 35¼ Woodhouse Mill 34¾ Beighton (1840-1843) 32¼ Killamarsh West 30¼ Eckington and Renishaw 27¾ Barrow Hill Whittington Tapton Junction 25 24 ¾ Chesterfield original current 20¾ Clay Cross Clay Cross Tunnel 17¾ Stretton 14¾ Wingfield 11½ Lodge Hill Tunnel Cromford Canal aqueduct 11 10½ Ambergate current original Toadmoor (Hag Wood) Tunnel Longland Tunnel 7¼ 7 Belper current original Milford Tunnel 5¼ 5 Duffield current original Nottingham Road (1856) 0¾ Derby

In 1922 passenger services calling at Barrow Hill were at their most intensive, with trains serving four destinations via five overlapping routes:

• On Sundays only
  • stopping trains plied directly between Rotherham Masborough and Chesterfield (MR) via the Old Road.
• On Mondays to Saturdays three stopping services plied between Sheffield (MR) and Chesterfield
  • most ran direct down the "New Road" through Dronfield and went nowhere near Barrow Hill.
• the other two services went the "long way round" via the "Old Road". They set off north eastwards from Sheffield (MR) towards Rotherham then swung east to go south along the Old Road
  • one of these continued north past Holmes, a short distance before Masboro' then swung hard right, next stop Treeton, then all stations, including Barrow Hill, to Chesterfield,
  • the other continued past Attercliffe Road then swung right onto the Sheffield District Railway passing through or calling at West Tinsley and Catcliffe before Treeton, after which they called at all stations to Chesterfield.
• Also on Mondays to Saturdays two stopping services plied between Mansfield (MR) and Chesterfield via Barrow Hill
  • some ran via the circuitous Clowne Branch through Elmton and Creswell, Clown (MR) and Staveley Town
  • others ran via the equally circuitous Doe Lea Branch through Glapwell and Staveley Town.^[10]

The lines from Barrow Hill and Foxlow Junction to Hall Lane Junction and thence to Seymour Junction and on to the former Markham Colliery have been mothballed as they run to the new Markham Vale Enterprise Zone at M1 Junction 29A.^[11]

The trackbed of the Clowne Branch from Seymour Junction has been protected too. Furthermore, the trackbed of the Oxcroft Branch off the Clowne Branch east of Seymour Junction has been protected as there remains the possibility of opencasting in the area. For example, in 2005 UK Coal (now Coalfield Resources), expressed an interest in extracting c530,000 tons near Mastin Moor.^[12]

Four other stations have at some time included "Staveley" in their names:

• Staveley Central on the Great Central Main Line about two miles east of Barrow Hill
• Staveley Town on the Midland Railway Clowne Branch about 250 yds east of Staveley Central
• Staveley Works on the "Chesterfield Loop" off the Great Central Main Line about half a mile south of Barrow Hill, and
• Staveley on the Windermere Branch Line in Cumbria

• Allen, R (1973) [1842]. The North Midland Railway Guide. Leeds: Turntable Enterprises.
• Bradshaw, George (1985) [July 1922]. Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation guide for Great Britain and Ireland: A reprint of the July 1922 issue. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-8708-5. OCLC 12500436.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Hogarth, Peter A. (January 1972). Slater, J.N. (ed.). "Open Day at Barrow Hill". The Railway Magazine. 118 (849). London: IPC Transport Press Ltd.
• Hurst, Geoffrey (1987). The Midland Railway Around Nottinghamshire, Volume 1. Worksop: Milepost Publications. ISBN 978-0-947796-05-1.
• Kaye, A.R. (1988). North Midland and Peak District Railways in the Steam Age, Volume 2. Chesterfield: Lowlander Publications. ISBN 978-0-946930-09-8.
• Pixton, Bob (2001). North Midland: Portrait of a Famous Route: Part 2 Chesterfield-Sheffield-Rotherham. Nottingham: Runpast Publishing, (now Book Law). ISBN 978-1-870754-51-4.

• "The station on old OS maps with overlays". National Library of Scotland.
• "The station and line on OS maps with overlays". Rail Maps Online.
• "Barrow Hill, Staveley Works, Staveley Central and Staveley Town on old OS map". npemaps.
• "The station on line CHR". Railway Codes.