Pye Hill and Somercotes | |
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General information | |
Location | Pye Hill, Ashfield England |
Coordinates | 53°04′11″N 1°20′22″W / 53.0696°N 1.3394°W |
Grid reference | SK443527 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Great Northern Railway |
Pre-grouping | Great Northern Railway |
Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway |
Key dates | |
24 March 1877 | Station opened as Pye Hill |
8 January 1906 | Renamed Pye Hill and Somercotes |
7 January 1963 | Station closed[1] |
Pye Hill and Somercotes railway station was a railway station on the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) on its Derbyshire Extension on the branch between Kimberley and Pinxton.[2] It served the villages of Pye Hill and Somercotes.
The station was opened by the Great Northern Railway on 24 March 1877, and was originally named Pye Hill; it was renamed Pye Hill and Somercotes on 8 January 1906, and closed on 7 January 1963.[1] The station was immortalised in 1964 in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.